OpenOffice.org Adoption in Munster and Denmark
Add to the catalog of European governments and agencies adopting OpenOffice.org two more:
eGov Monitor announces that Germany’s city of Munster has chosen to standardize on OpenOffice for its school IT in German City Münster Launches Pilot Project For its Schools To Adopt Open Source Software:
At the moment, teachers are trying out OpenOffice in two schools. The suite will be made available to all schools in November 2009. “We plan to make OpenOffice the default office application for schools”, said Citeq’s spokesperson Stefan Schoenfelder.
The second note comes from OpenOffice.org community member Leif Lodahl of the Danish localization project, who writes:
We are experiencing a very important breakthrough in
the municipalities right now.City of Gribskov has been using OpenOffice for a few years.
City of Tønder has been using OpenOffice in schools for about a year.
City of Lyngby-Taarbæk has decided to use OpenOffice in schools.
According to the local newspaper this is only the first step towards a
compete change from MS to OpenOffice in the administration as well…Even the Mayor is happy 😉
Another city close to Copenhagen is about to implement a new version of a
Case- and Document Handling System, that integrates OpenOffice into it. From
then, more than 90% of new documents will be produced with OpenOffice.
Expected to be implemented beginning of November this year. (I will talk
about this case at OOoCon this year).
Thanks for the update, Leif!