Tuesday, June 25, 2013

LibreOffice love sees Microsoft removed from thousands of PCs in South Tyrol

<p>South Tyrol, an autonomous region in northern Italy, is preparing a major switch in its office software.</p><p>Instead of Microsoft Office, the government is planning to use LibreOffice and the open file format ODF. LibreOffice was forked from the popular OpenOffice productivity suite in 2010 after concerns surfaced that the project might be discontinued.</p><p>LibreOffice is the first free software that South Tyrol has used, and will be rolled out progressively over the next three years. The long migration time is down to the fact the local government has to integrate no less than 200 different software packages with its new office suite.</p><p>The region's first step in the migration will be to switch a on 7,000 machines from Microsoft Office to LibreOffice and establish the file format ODF as the standard for the data exchange between the different branches of government.South Tyrol institutions announcing the switch from Microsoft Office to LibreOffice. (Source: DiKOM/ohn)</p><p><a href="http://www.zdnet.com/libreoffice-love-sees-microsoft-removed-from-thousands-of-pcs-in-south-tyrol-7000017221/">Keep reading...</a></p>

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