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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

• The Psychiatry in the County of Aarhus in Denmark with 2200 users on 1100 workstations.
  • The Psychiatry in the County of Aarhus switches to OpenOffice
• City of Bergen, Norway
• Region Brussels Capital, Belgium - both government and schools
• City of Birmingham, UK
• City of Berlin [1]
• City Prague--some desktops [2]
• 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.
• 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
• 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."
• French General Board of Customs ()
• French Ministry of Interior ()
• French Ministry of Equipment()
• 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
• Other case studies of migration to FOSS in Europe [3]

Schools and Universities

• Earlham College, a Quaker college in Richmond, Indiana, upgraded all of its public computers to OpenOffice at the beginning of 2005.
• 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
• 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 the Philippines.

Private Sector

• Novell with 5000 users most of them on Novell Linux Desktop
  • The Novell® Migration to Linux
• Health First with 6000 users and 3500 PC's.
  • Migrating to Linux at Health First from Novell
• Ernie Ball Guitars
• Bangkok Airways
• De Bortoli Wines in Australia
• MIP Holdings New Zealand

Other Sectors or Tentative Deployments

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

StarOffice

• 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