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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

• 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.
  • 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 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
• Other case studies of migration to FOSS in Europe [2]

Schools and Universities

• Noxon Schools in Montana, USA: 185 desktops moved to OpenOffice in December 2005. (60 run OOo on Windows, 125 on Linux.)
  • Also summarized on EdTech.
• 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.
• 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.

Private Sector

• 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 migrated and the rest should be migrated until the end of 2006.
• Novell with 5,000 users (most of them on Novell Linux Desktop).
  • The Novell Migration to Linux
• 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. a US based corporation has switched its users to OOo. Approx. 100+ desktops/notebooks.

Other Sectors or Tentative Deployments

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

Non Governmental Organisations (NGOs)

C.P.T.R.T Centro de Prevencion, Tratamiento y Rehabilitacion de las Victimas de Tortura y sus Familiares

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 ?

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