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The wine parliament has just decided to separate the operating system and office applications of the world's largest software company. In June 2007, government agencies officially used Linux, the Firefox browser and the free OpenOffice.

This open-source office suite has many languages, from Arabic to Welsh. OpenOffice is in version 2.0.4 and considers Microsoft Office to be its direct competitor with Writer text editor, Calc spreadsheet, Impress conference presentation, Draw graphic design. In addition, the Base database management tool in this suite will confront Access.

The French Parliament said that they could save money by using open source software, although they would have to pay for training for all employees and buy Linux software. Currently, some ministries in France have run operating systems on servers. The French Parliament will be the first unit to use Linux on workstations.

However, Chris Swenson, director of software market analysis of research firm NPD, said: " If you buy Linux software from a distributor like Red Hat, for example, customers still have to pay for registration. , support and maintenance In addition, finding a system manager on Linux is more difficult than a Windows engineer . "