Dateline : October 18, 2007 Bangkok

Cheval Announces Open Office Search Competition for Employees

October 10, 2008 - Cheval group of companies recently announced the hosting of the first ever Cheval Open Source Search as a challenge for all employees to involve themselves in using OpenOffice. The competition helps promote the use of open source software to Cheval employees in all three of our facilities. The competition is not only a chance to show expertise in using the software, but also illustrates the potential of developing and contributing to the very worthwhile subject of Free and Open Source Software.

The idea is to learn by working together on projects such as OpenOffice.org whose license allows free collaboration across borders and between organizations.

The competition would attract unique skills learned from using OpenOffice and is divided into 3 categories:

1. Spreadsheet calculations through the use of Open Source Office Calc
2. Documents and word processing through the use of Open Source Office Writer
3. Graphics designers and retouching through Open Source Office Gimp

The contest will run through November 30. 2007 and cash prizes awarded will total approximately 150,000 Baht or US$ 4,500.

OpenOffice.org is both an open-source project and product. It is free. As one of the leading
open-source projects, OpenOffice.org combines the worldwide efforts of developers and
end users to produce a complete office productivity suite that runs on all major platforms and
in over 40 languages while being compatible with Microsoft Office.

Currently, Cheval workstations primarily have OpenOffice.org products installed and that the company is planning activities with knowledge-based publications such as OpenSource2Day magazine.