The administration of the Hungarian city of Miskolc is moving to a desktop system based on open source, in order to become less dependent on a single proprietary IT vendor and to reduce costs for its desktop PCs. Already 60 percent of the civil servants use Open Office and Libre Office, two closely related open source suites of office tools.

The administration of the Hungarian city of Miskolc is moving to a desktop system based on open source, in order to become less dependent on a single proprietary IT vendor and to reduce costs for its desktop PCs. Already 60 percent of the civil servants use Open Office and Libre Office, two closely related open source suites of office tools.

The city next wants to replace its proprietary PC operating systems by moving to Ubuntu GNU/Linux, says Peter Szakal, a consultant at Open SKM, an open source IT service provider that is assisting the public administration with its migration.

The administration of the Hungarian city of Miskolc is moving to a desktop system based on open source, in order to become less dependent on a single proprietary IT vendor and to reduce costs for its desktop PCs. Already 60 percent of the civil servants use Open Office and Libre Office, two closely related open source suites of office tools.

The city next wants to replace its proprietary PC operating systems by moving to Ubuntu GNU/Linux, says Peter Szakal, a consultant at Open SKM, an open source IT service provider that is assisting the public administration with its migration.

The government of the Ile-de-France region teamed up with The Document Foundation to provide a 'Software as a service' (SaaS) version of LibreOffice - the Foundation's free office suite - to a wide range of upper secondary education actors, it was announced at the LibreOffice Conference held in Paris on 12-15 October 2011.

The government of the Ile-de-France region teamed up with The Document Foundation to provide a 'Software as a service' (SaaS) version of LibreOffice - the Foundation's free office suite - to a wide range of upper secondary education actors, it was announced at the LibreOffice Conference held in Paris on 12-15 October 2011.

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The government of the Ile-de-France region teamed up with The Document Foundation to provide a 'Software as a service' (SaaS) version of LibreOffice - the Foundation's free office suite - to a wide range of upper secondary education actors, it was announced at the LibreOffice Conference held in Paris on 12-15 October 2011.

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Almost all of the 25,000 workers at thirteen hospitals in the Copenhagen region will over the next year begin to use Libre Office, an open source suite of office productivity tools. The group of hospitals is phasing out a proprietary alternative, 'for long term strategic reasons', which at the same time saves the group some 40 million Kroner (about 5.3 million euro) worth of proprietary licences.

Almost all of the 25,000 workers at thirteen hospitals in the Copenhagen region will over the next year begin to use Libre Office, an open source suite of office productivity tools. The group of hospitals is phasing out a proprietary alternative, 'for long term strategic reasons', which at the same time saves the group some 40 million Kroner (about 5.3 million euro) worth of proprietary licences.

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Almost all of the 25,000 workers at thirteen hospitals in the Copenhagen region will over the next year begin to use Libre Office, an open source suite of office productivity tools. The group of hospitals is phasing out a proprietary alternative, 'for long term strategic reasons', which at the same time saves the group some 40 million Kroner (about 5.3 million euro) worth of proprietary licences.

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Public administrations that actively use open source, should maintain good contacts with those developing that kind of software, recommends Florian Maier, software developer working for the city of Munich. Such contacts offer good opportunities for the exchange of knowledge, he says. "The community is very important. Public administrations do not have to do software development work alone."

Public administrations that actively use open source, should maintain good contacts with those developing that kind of software, recommends Florian Maier, software developer working for the city of Munich. Such contacts offer good opportunities for the exchange of knowledge, he says. "The community is very important. Public administrations do not have to do software development work alone."

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Public administrations that actively use open source, should maintain good contacts with those developing that kind of software, recommends Florian Maier, software developer working for the city of Munich. Such contacts offer good opportunities for the exchange of knowledge, he says. "The community is very important. Public administrations do not have to do software development work alone."

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The Musical Studies Department (MSD) of the Ionian University in Corfu has recently taken the initiative to become the first ever Public Organization and educational Institution in Greece that officially embraces Free and Open Source Software in its infrastructure.

The Musical Studies Department (MSD) of the Ionian University in Corfu has recently taken the initiative to become the first ever Public Organization and educational Institution in Greece that officially embraces Free and Open Source Software in its infrastructure.

The project of migration of the MSD to open software applications was run after a decision of the Department's General Assembly and consists of three levels:

Spain's public administrations are an important driver for the advance of open source software on desktop computers. That is one of the conclusions of a desktop migration guide published by the IT department of the city of Zaragoza.