Lithuanian police switched to LibreOffice - Now also piloting use of Ubuntu Linux I wonder when taxpayers will start to realise that these things are really possible, and have been done elsewhere, and why are their own governments not questioned about potential cost savings? The police force in Lithuania have switched to using LibreOffice. This free and open source suite of office productivity tools is implemented on over 8000 workstations. The police has started to test the use of workstations running Ubuntu Linux. The savings were the main motive for the switch to LibreOffice, the police confirms in an email to the European Commission’s Open Source Observatory (OSOR). The switch saves the police EUR 1 million. The completion of the transition was announced on June 30. Key to the success of the switch is support by the top management, the police confirms by email: “Deputy Police Commissioner General D. Malaškevičius personally took care of the project, in direct contact with the IT department.” See http://ift.tt/2b0VTB8
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