80,000 French Desktops to Migrate to OpenOffice.org
ZDNet UK reports, French tax agency plans massive OpenOffice deployment. The agency has calculated savings of tens of millions of euros, with very little disruption or migration pains expected.
“The French tax agency, which manages the taxes of all states and cities in France, plans to deploy the open source office productivity application OpenOffice.org on thousands of its PCs…
Jean-Marie Lapeyre, chief technical officer at the French tax agency said it plans to migrate 80,000 desktops from Microsoft Office 97 to OpenOffice.org next year.
The migration is expected to cut the agency’s costs by €29.3m, compared with the cost of switching to Office XP. The agency has calculated that it will only take three man-years to be “completely independent” of Microsoft Office, according to Lapeyre.”
This is only part of a much larger migration to open source tools within the agency.