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. This page does not track ODF legislation or deployments. See the ODF adoption page on OpenDocument XML.org for that.

Governments

Africa

  • The ministry of Finances of Morocco : (www.finances.gov.ma) started to adopt Openoffice.org office suite in its departments in 2006. the adoption is continuing in 2007, the challenge being mainly MS Macros in Excel that are slowing the migration.

Asia

Europe

North America

Oceania

South America

  • Argentinian state choose ODF: "Any electronic document created or generated by the state government of Misiones/Argentina aimed to store and distribute information to state offices and employees must use the OpenDocument format ( ISO/IEC 26300 specification )." The resolution cited explicitly rejects the following formats: MS-Office (doc, xls, ppt), RTF and other propietary binary formats like Wordperfect's wp.
  • The "Banco do Brasil", Brazil´s state-owned bank, has installed 71,000 copies of OpenOffice.org (also known in Brazil as BROffice.org) covering almost every computer of the Enterprise, which reduced the MS-Office 2003 licences in 70%. http://opendocument.xml.org/node/153
  • The Brazilian federal government's "Computers for All" project will deploy OpenOffice.org on 50,000 desktops http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2094861,00.asp
  • The Government of the State of the Paraná - Brazil: It adopted BrOffice.org (Brazilian OpenOffice.org) in all the work stations. Only in the State net of Education, Digital Paraná Project, will be more than 40,000 installations of BrOffice.org http://www.celepar.pr.gov.br/modules/noticias/article.php?storyid=120

Schools and Universities

Africa

Asia

Europe

North America

  • Brandon Elementary School in Atlanta, Georgia, USA: 250 desktops running OpenOffice.org on K12LTSP. Project began in May, 2005.
  • 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.
  • Illinois Central College in East Peoria, Illinois, USA has installed OOo on all its campus lab computers, and distributes installation CDs to students.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • Glenwood School for Boys and Girls, Glenwood, IL, USA: Migrated to OpenOffice.org 2 on over 100 desktops in our Grades 2-8 school in September 2005 (started with beta release), replacing MS Office 2000. 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 MS Office is still used by many staff members, this was our first year to use OpenOffice exclusively for our students in the academic program.
  • Pleasant View Christian School, Pleasant View, Tennessee United States, uses OpenOffice.org 2.0 on Windows desktops in every classroom. The school was able to buy additional computers because of the savings over using Microsoft Office.
  • Windsor Unified School District in Windsor California. Starting January 2007 with one of the districts elementary schools the district began shifting from windows to SUSE enterprise along with openoffice.org instead of buying new MS Office licenses. By Summer 2007 all 5,200 students and 250 teachers will be on the new system.

Oceania

South America

  • High Schools in Chile, via Enlaces

Private Sector

Africa

Asia

Europe

  • Ford & Warren Solicitors, UK. A leading Law Firm in Leeds with 200 desktops now using Openoffice 2.0. StarOffice 5.x was also used previous to this rollout.
  • Future Publishing, UK. A leading tech magazine publisher, with 700 OpenOffice.org users.
  • Peugeot Citroën of France "will install Suse Linux Enterprise Desktop on up to 20,000 computers in addition to 2,500 servers" starting in early 2007.
  • Kervan Gida, Turkey with 80+ desktops.
  • LVM Insurance in Munster, Germany: 7,700 Red Hat Linux desktops.
  • Groupe Laurent: French Car/Trucks/Industry Technical parts distributor. 650 OpenOffice users, including 550 on Linux.

North America

Oceania

  • De Bortoli Wines, Australia. OpenOffice.org installed on all client devices (Over 1/3 of Desktop users running Linux).
  • MIP Holdings New Zealand.

South America

Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs)

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