Zaragoza, Spain Adopting OpenOffice and Linux
Linux Today announces that Zaragoza, Spain will migrate to FOSS:
“The City Council of Zaragoza has decided to abandon the Windows operating system and move to open source systems that should save the Aragon capital city nearly €1M per year.”
The migration will be carried out in two phases, scheduled to be finished by the end of 2008. Phase 1 involves a move to OpenOffice.org, and Phase 2 is the adoption of Novell SUSE Linux.
According to the article, “The Press Office and the Office of Citizen Relations already are using OpenOffice.org, and will be followed by the Municipal Registry office,” which means the migration’s in full implementation mode! (Eliminating the specious argument they’re just aiming for price concessions from Microsoft. We never believed those allegations regarding other announced FOSS migrations anyway.)
National and EU recommendations promote the use of Free Software and open standards across the European continent, so Zaragoza is almost certainly going to be surrounded and supported by many others riding the same wave. Good luck to them and their neighbors! (Now please help us out in New York City!)