Gosh! Here’s a great story! Bristol City Council have decided to ditch Microsoft Office, despite talks with them, and move 5500 users over to Sun’s Star Office, the sold-with-support version of the Open Office suite. This has been on the books for some time, but the savings of over a cool million UKP in 5 years were more than enough to assuage any concerns that there might have been about moving to new software. (Not that there’s much in the way of retraining needed, IMHO.) Apparently, each MS Office licence was 12 (!) times more expensive than the equivalent StarOffice one. Wow. No wonder they changed!