{"id":1136,"date":"2013-01-23T14:00:45","date_gmt":"2013-01-23T14:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/?p=1136"},"modified":"2013-01-24T08:47:31","modified_gmt":"2013-01-24T08:47:31","slug":"basque-country-council-saves-thousands-with-libreoffice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/?p=1136","title":{"rendered":"Basque council saves thousands with LibreOffice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Spanish IT services company <a href=\"http:\/\/www.elkarmedia.com\/index.php\/es\/component\/content\/article\/48-casos-de-exito\/123-hemos-implantado-libreoffice-en-el-ayuntamiento-de-azpeitia\">ElkarMedia S.L. reports<\/a> (Spanish) that the municipality of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Azpeitia\">Azpeitia<\/a> in Spain&#8217;s Basque Country will be avoiding the maintenance costs involved in using Microsoft Office and saving up to &euro;30,000-40,000 in 3-4 years since the company installed the free and open source <a href=\"http:\/\/www.libreoffice.org\/\">LibreOffice<\/a> office suite on the council&#8217;s computers.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1060\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1060\" style=\"width: 440px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2013\/01\/libre_mimeiconsbanner.png\" alt=\"image of LibreOffice Mime type icons\" width=\"440\" height=\"64\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1060\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2013\/01\/libre_mimeiconsbanner.png 440w, https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2013\/01\/libre_mimeiconsbanner-300x43.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 440px) 100vw, 440px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1060\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">LibreOffice for all your office suite needs: word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, database, drawing and formulas<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In addition, ElkarMedia also provided training for council employees to enable them to use the new software.<\/p>\n<p>The council has also made the following two decisions:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Any computers bought in the future will have a free and open source operating system. This will result in a saving of &euro;100 per machine by avoiding the cost of a Microsoft Windows licence;<\/li>\n<li>Servers will also use a free operating system; the council&#8217;s servers are replaced every 4-5 years and this will produce a saving of &euro;5,000.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bristolwireless.net\/2013\/01\/spanish-council-saves-thousands-with-libreoffice\/\">This article was originally posted on Bristol Wireless<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spanish IT services company ElkarMedia S.L. reports (Spanish) that the municipality of Azpeitia in Spain&#8217;s Basque Country will be avoiding the maintenance costs involved in using Microsoft Office and saving up to &euro;30,000-40,000 in 3-4 years since the company installed the free and open source LibreOffice office suite on the council&#8217;s computers. In addition, ElkarMedia [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,9],"tags":[19,24,12,23],"class_list":["post-1136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-source-software","category-tech","tag-free-software","tag-odf","tag-open-source","tag-tech-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1136"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1140,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1136\/revisions\/1140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}