User:Davejenk1ns

2006-05-20T02:46:09Z

Davejenk1ns:

CTO for [http://www.backcountry.com backcountry.com], where we have deployed OpenOffice onto 2/3rds of our desktops, and are picking up the remainder via attrition.

Major OpenOffice.org Deployments

2006-05-20T02:45:06Z

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This page will track public information on major OpenOffice.org deployments. To add to it, include a URL or reference information of the deployment.

=== Governments ===

* [http://www.informit.com/articles/article.asp?p=30590&redir=1 Legal Aid Manitoba], Canada, switched to OpenOffice.org from WordPerfect (and from Windows to Linux) on all its 150 desktops.
*The Psychiatry in the County of Aarhus in Denmark with 2,200 users on 1,100 workstations.
**[http://www.oskc.dk/openoffice_uk.htm The Psychiatry in the County of Aarhus switches to OpenOffice]
* City of Bergen, Norway
* [http://europa.eu.int/idabc/servlets/Doc?id=20034 Region Brussels Capital], Belgium - both government and schools
* [http://www.techworld.com/opsys/news/index.cfm?newsid=3676 City of Birmingham], UK
* City of Berlin [http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/67168]
* [http://europa.eu.int/idabc/en/document/5150/470 City of Prague]: 60 MS Office desktops replaced by OpenOffice.org
* Brazil’s post office installed 14,000 copies of OpenOffice.org on new computers in January 2005, and will replace Microsoft Office with OpenOffice.org on an additional 32,000 computers nationwide. [http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000086&refer=latin_america&sid=aZLWBOYKBK.o Bloomberg]
* [http://www.vnunet.com/news/1159467 City of Bristol], UK: 5,000 desktops to StarOffice.
** [http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2006/02/23/bristol_migration.html More in-depth coverage] by Jono Bacon at LinuxDevCenter.com
* Since 2003, Extremadura, a region of Spain, has run 80,000 Linux PCs with OpenOffice.org and a collection of other FOSS applications. [http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=12611 OS News]
* [http://europa.eu.int/idabc/en/document/4693 Gdańsk], Poland
* [http://europa.eu.int/idabc/en/document/3434/469 City of Haarlem], The Netherlands: 2,000 desktops moved to OpenOffice.org from Microsoft Office 97 in 2004.
* [http://europa.eu.int/idabc/servlets/Doc?id=1647 Sonneburgh foundation], Rotterdam, The Netherlands
*City of Munich, Germany
*City of Mannheim, Germany
*City of [http://www.linux-magazin.de/Artikel/ausgabe/2004/01/066_schwaebischhall/schwaebischhall.html Schwäbisch Hall], Germany
*Paris administrations
*[http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/linuxunix/0,39020390,39184699,00.htm French Gendarmerie]: 80,000 desktop PCs, summer 2005.
* [http://insight.zdnet.co.uk/software/0,39020463,39236214,00.htm The French tax agency] (Direction Générale des Impôts): 80,000 desktop PCs by the end of 2006.
**"The agency has calculated that switching its 80,000 desktops to Office XP (from MS Office 97) would cost around €29.5m, but switching to OpenOffice.org only €200,000. Although this cost is a one-off saving, Lapeyre points out that due to the need for regular upgrades it will effectively save this amount every five years."
** [http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20060119232859729 Groklaw interview]
* French General Board of Customs
* French Ministry of Interior
* [http://linuxinsider.com/story/35108.html French Ministry of Equipment]
** Also: [http://searchopensource.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid39_gci992096,00.html French Ministry of Equipment] (article circa 2004) Windows on "60,000 workstations and 2,000 NT servers will be replaced" by Mandrake Linux. OpenOffice is not explicitly mentioned, but is implied.
* City of Largo, Florida, USA
* City of Vienna, Austria
* [http://europa.eu.int/idabc/en/document/4677/469 Postal Service] South Korea
* [http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/windows/0,39020396,39171012,00.htm Ministry of Defence in Singapore]
** "MINDEF has already installed the OpenOffice productivity suite on 5,000 desktop computers... We hope to deploy OpenOffice on 20,000 desktop computers by the end of March 2006."
* [http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;631120522;fp;16;fpid;0 Judicial Commission], New South Wales, Australia
* [http://www.cw.no/index.cfm/fuseaction/artikkel/id/33333 The Municipality of Sarpsborg], Norway
* Government of India is distributing millions of CDs with OOo in local languages
* [http://www2.cpttm.org.mo/cyberlab/oss/CPTTMSavesMoneyWithOOo.pdf Macau Productivity and Technology Transfer] (CPTTM), Macau
* [http://www.fr.datanews.be/news/enterprise_computing/20060224007 Belgian Federal Public Justice Service] is migrating 4000 users to OpenOffice.org
* [http://www.tcmb.gov.tr/yeni/eng/index.html Central Bank of Republic of Turkey]: Around 2000 desktops, 600 being Linux
* [http://www.tubitak.gov.tr/english/index.htm The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey]
* [http://www.iski.gov.tr Ministry of Water Resources of Turkey] with 1000 desktop installations
* [http://www.istanbulsaglik.gov.tr Directorate of İstanbul City Health] has installed more than 300 desktops with OpenOffice.org 2.0
* Other case studies of migration to FOSS in Europe [http://europa.eu.int/idabc/en/chapter/470]

=== Schools and Universities ===

* [http://spidertools.com/oss.php Noxon Schools] in Montana, USA: 185 desktops moved to OpenOffice in December 2005. (60 run OOo on Windows, 125 on Linux.)
** [http://educationaltechnology.ca/couros/495 Also summarized on EdTech.]
* [http://scs.earlham.edu/openoffice.html Earlham College], a Quaker college in Richmond, Indiana, upgraded all of its public computers to OpenOffice at the beginning of 2005.
* [http://www.openhgs.org Handsworth Grammar School], Birmingham, UK - runs a GNU/Linux Thin Client network with OpenOffice as standard - since 2003.
* [http://linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/reports/5284/1/ Bacone College] in Oklahoma.
* [http://resnet.albany.edu/rcd/index.shtml#Software SUNY Albany]: ResNet, the campus IT services group, provides incoming students with the ResNet Software Suite CD, which includes Firefox, Thunderbird, OpenOffice.org, anti-spyware and anti-virus applications.
* [http://software.newsforge.com/software/05/05/18/1944227.shtml?tid=130&tid=93 University of Detroit Jesuit High School and Academy]: 268 desktops in summer 2003.
* Public Schools in Portland, Oregon, USA
* [http://www.swadelands.kent.sch.uk/ Swadelands School] in Kent UK
* High Schools in Chile, via Enlaces
* [http://business.newsforge.com/business/05/09/28/1843234.shtml?tid=37 Mall School for boys] in Richmond, UK
* The US State of Indiana will deploy up to 300,000 Linspire Linux computers with OpenOffice.org over the next few years: [http://www.linspire.com/lindows_news_pressreleases_archives.php?id=181 Linspire press release].
* [http://www.studentit.unimelb.edu.au/openoffice/ University of Melbourne, Australia] Distributes OpenOffice CDs to students for free or a minimal charge.
* [http://www.up.edu.ph/forum/2002/Nov-Dec02/letter.html University of the Philippines].
* [http://www.expresscomputeronline.com/20050418/management02.shtml Parshvanath College of Engineering, Thane, India]: "Today, we have over 2,500 users on our network... Using OpenOffice.org, we have saved roughly Rs 70,000."
* [http://www.umic.pt/UMIC/Media/SaladeImprensa/sun_me.htm The Portuguese Ministry of Education] has installed 15,000 PCs in 1,000 schools with Linux and OpenOffice.org following an agreement with Sun Microsystems.
* The Hayesbrook School in Tonbridge, Kent, UK - Deployed OpenOffice 2 to over 400 Desktops & Laptops.
* Asia School of Arts and Sciences, Philippines. Will start implementing OpenOffice.org beginning schoolyear 2006-07.

=== Private Sector ===

* [http://tecnologia.terra.com.br/interna/0,,OI906852-EI4801,00.html Banco do Brasil] plans on completely replacing Microsoft Office with OpenOffice.org and other Free Software by the end of 2006: 23,000 PCs (20% of the total) have already been migrated and the rest should be completed by the end of 2006.
*[http://www.novell.com/ Novell] with 5,000 users (most of them on Novell Linux Desktop).
**[http://www.novell.com/collateral/4621400/4621400.html The Novell Migration to Linux]
*Health First: 6,000 users and 3,500 PCs.
**[http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/tip/1585.html Migrating to Linux at Health First] from Novell.
* [http://news.com.com/2008-1082_3-5065859.html?tag=lh Ernie Ball Guitars]
* [http://www.bangkokpost.com/300305_Database/30Mar2005_data51.php Bangkok Airways]
* [http://www.packtpub.com/article/de_bortoli_wines_embraces_open_source De Bortoli Wines] in Australia.
* [http://www.networktimes.co.za/news.asp?pklNewsID=17245&pklIssueID=433&pklCategoryID=309 MIP Holdings] New Zealand.
* [http://www.computerworld.com/industrytopics/financial/story/0,10801,103198,00.html LVM Insurance] in Munster, Germany: 7,700 Red Hat Linux desktops.
* [http://searchopensource.techtarget.com/qna/0,289202,sid39_gci964811,00.html Health First, Inc.] in Brevard County, FL, USA: Migrating 6,000 IT users on 3,500 PCs from Microsoft Office 97 to OpenOffice.org (May 2004).
* [http://www.gbengineering.in GB Engineering Ent. Pvt. Ltd] India
* [http://www.kervan.com.tr Kervan Gıda] Turkey with 80+ desktops
* [http://www.nafeco.com NAFECO INC.] NAFECO, a US based corporation, has switched its users to OOo. Approx. 125 desktops/notebooks.
* [http://www.backcountry.com Backcountry.com] a US basd ecommerce retailer offering the best ski, snowboard, hiking, climbing and outdoor gear.

=== Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) ===

[http://cptrt.org C.P.T.R.T] Centro de Prevencion, Tratamiento y Rehabilitacion de las Victimas de Tortura y sus Familiares

[http://www.greenpeace.es/ Greenpeace Spain], Madrid and Barcelona offices: http://www.greenpeace.org/espana/news/greenpeace-apuesta-por-el-soft

=== Other Sectors or Tentative Deployments ===

* Somewhere in France: http://fr.openoffice.org/Marketing/matexpo/Documents/memoire_cnam.pdf

== StarOffice / StarSuite==

* [http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2006/02/23/bristol_migration.html Bristol City Council], UK: 5,500 PCs migrated in late 2005, early 2006.
* [http://299pcdeal.com/ AOL PCs] (as [http://www.aolcheckout.com/aol-pc/aolfaq.asp AOL Office])
* [http://theregister.co.uk/content/4/36170.html The State of Haryana], India
* [http://searchenterpriselinux.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid39_gci934811,00.html Sun Microsystems]: Its 36,000 employees use StarOffice.
* [http://www.computerworld.com/industrytopics/financial/story/0,10801,103198,00.html Banca Popolare di Milano]
** 4,500 SUSE Linux desktops with a Mozilla web browser, web client for Lotus Notes, Sun’s StarOffice suite, and a Java-based custom suite of banking applications in its 500 branch offices.
* [http://europa.eu.int/idabc/en/document/3277/470 German Monopolies Commission]
* [http://hardware.itmanagersjournal.com/article.pl?sid=04/06/07/1839258&tid=34&tid=12 Ontario Ministry of Education]
* [http://www.cmpnetasia.com/ViewArt.cfm?Artid=16052&catid=8&subcat=83 Hong Kong Schools]
* [http://sg.sun.com/news_events/success/staroffice/cscd.html Central Singapore Community Development Council] (CS CDC) ?? - no date supplied
* [http://www.techweb.com/wire/26804024 United India Insurance Company] (UIIC) of India
* Onesource of India
* National Fertilisers of India
* Apnaloan.com of India
* San Jose State University ?
* Michigan Technological University ?
* Hamilton County School District in Tennessee ?
* Texas School for the Blind ?
* Dallas Independent School District ?

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* http://www.frappr.com/k12opensource
* http://www.solidoffice.com/openoffice/nyc/

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