Major OpenOffice.org Deployments
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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.
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Governments
- 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.
- City of Bergen, Norway
- Region Brussels Capital, Belgium - both government and schools
- [1] Belgian Gov't. Chooses ODF
- City of Birmingham, UK
- City of Berlin [2]
- 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. Bloomberg
- City of Bristol, UK: 5,000 desktops to StarOffice.
- 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. OS News
- Gdańsk, Poland
- City of Haarlem, The Netherlands: 2,000 desktops moved to OpenOffice.org from Microsoft Office 97 in 2004.
- Sonneburgh foundation, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
- City of Munich, Germany
- City of Mannheim, Germany
- City of Schwäbisch Hall, Germany
- Paris administrations
- French Gendarmerie: 80,000 desktop PCs, summer 2005.
- 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."
- Groklaw interview
- French General Board of Customs
- French Ministry of Interior
- French Ministry of Equipment
- Also: 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
- Postal Service South Korea
- 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."
- Judicial Commission, New South Wales, Australia
- The Municipality of Sarpsborg, Norway
- Government of India is distributing millions of CDs with OOo in local languages
- Macau Productivity and Technology Transfer (CPTTM), Macau
- Belgian Federal Public Justice Service is migrating 4000 users to OpenOffice.org
- Central Bank of Republic of Turkey: Around 2000 desktops, 600 being Linux
- The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey
- Ministry of Water Resources of Turkey with 1000 desktop installations
- Directorate of İstanbul City Health has installed more than 300 desktops with OpenOffice.org 2.0
- tax authority in Lower Saxony, Germany 12,000 desktops
- Other case studies of migration to FOSS in Europe [3]
- State of Nevada, Department of Corrections 1135 Desktops to have OOo installed for PDF creation and evaluation of migration options
- Ministry of Finance, Republic of Macedonia has installed more than 150 desktops with OpenOffice.org 2.0
- Federal Data Center Project, Pakistan: 1,000 initially, moving to 4,000
Schools and Universities
- Noxon Schools in Montana, USA: 185 desktops moved to OpenOffice in December 2005. (60 run OOo on Windows, 125 on Linux.)
- Earlham College, a Quaker college in Richmond, Indiana, upgraded all of its public computers to OpenOffice at the beginning of 2005.
- Handsworth Grammar School, Birmingham, UK - runs a GNU/Linux Thin Client network with OpenOffice as standard - since 2003.
- Ilford Preparatory School, London, UK - runs a Windows network with Open Office as the primary office suite.
- Bacone College in Oklahoma.
- 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.
- University of Detroit Jesuit High School and Academy: 268 desktops in summer 2003.
- Public Schools in Portland, Oregon, USA
- Swadelands School in Kent UK
- High Schools in Chile, via Enlaces
- 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: Linspire press release.
- University of Melbourne, Australia Distributes OpenOffice CDs to students for free or a minimal charge.
- University of the Philippines.
- 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."
- 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.
- [4] Glenwood School for Boys and Girls, Glenwood, IL, USA, Migrated to OpenOffice 2 on over 100 desktops in our Grades 2-8 school in September 2005 (started with beta release), replacing MSOffice 2K. Distributed 100 installation CDs to students to take home in December 2005. Have deployed OpenOffice or StarOffice to every computer on our campus, approximately 200 desktops in all. While MSOffice is still used by many staff members, this was our first year to use OpenOffice exclusively for our students in the academic program.
Private Sector
- Banco do Brasil has replaced Microsoft Office with OpenOffice.org on 35,000 PCs. An additional 30,000 PCs running OS/2 will be migrated to OpenOffice by the end of 2006.
- Novell with 5,000 users (most of them on Novell Linux Desktop).
- Health First: 6,000 users and 3,500 PCs.
- Migrating to Linux at Health First from Novell.
- Ernie Ball Guitars
- Bangkok Airways
- De Bortoli Wines in Australia.
- MIP Holdings New Zealand.
- LVM Insurance in Munster, Germany: 7,700 Red Hat Linux desktops.
- 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).
- GB Engineering Ent. Pvt. Ltd India
- Kervan Gıda Turkey with 80+ desktops
- NAFECO INC. NAFECO, a US based corporation, has switched its users to OOo. Approx. 125 desktops/notebooks.
- Backcountry.com a US based ecommerce retailer offering the best ski, snowboard, hiking, climbing and outdoor gear.
- Miller Industries, Inc. - the world's largest manufacturer of vehicle towing and recovery equipment. ~200 OpenOffice 2.0.x users
- Resolvo Systems Pte Ltd - Asia's leading open source solutions provider based in Singapore. It has been using OpenOffice company-wide since OO version 1.0. Assisted Singapore Ministry of Defence to migrate to OpenOffice.
Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs)
C.P.T.R.T Centro de Prevencion, Tratamiento y Rehabilitacion de las Victimas de Tortura y sus Familiares
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
- Bristol City Council, UK: 5,500 PCs migrated in late 2005, early 2006.
- AOL PCs (as AOL Office)
- The State of Haryana, India
- Sun Microsystems: Its 36,000 employees use StarOffice.
- 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.
- German Monopolies Commission
- Ontario Ministry of Education
- Hong Kong Schools
- Central Singapore Community Development Council (CS CDC) ?? - no date supplied
- 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 ?