AA shifts 700 mobile devices to XT
The New Zealand Automobile Association is moving its mobile users off Vodafone and on to Telecom's new XT network.
The New Zealand Automobile Association is moving its mobile users off Vodafone and on to Telecom's new XT network.
The New Zealand Automobile Association will host tourism marketing, guides and web operations under a partnership formed with Australian Automobile Clubs.
The New Zealand Automobile Association took the plunge in late 2005 when it upgraded from a MS-DOS-based financial system to an enterprise-wide, integrated system. Now, the organisation is in the middle of upgrading again, this time to the .Net platform.
News that the New Zealand Automobile Association is to throw out Open Office in favour of Microsoft’s software is a blow to open-source ambitions. But it shouldn’t surprise. The AA cites interoperability as the major issue here and says, whether we like it or not, Microsoft Office, and its document formats, are a de facto industry standard.
Issues around compatibility as well as the question of future technology direction have led the Automobile Association to dump Open Office in favour of Microsoft Office.