{"id":2886,"date":"2013-10-15T13:38:38","date_gmt":"2013-10-15T13:38:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/?p=2886"},"modified":"2013-10-15T13:51:58","modified_gmt":"2013-10-15T13:51:58","slug":"italys-emilia-romagno-region-to-save-2-mn-with-openoffice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/?p=2886","title":{"rendered":"Italy&#8217;s Emilia-Romagna region to save &euro;2 mn. with OpenOffice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2013\/10\/Flag_of_Emilia-Romagna.png\" alt=\"Flag of Emilia-Romagna\" width=\"200\" height=\"133\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2888\" \/>The administration of the Italy&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.regione.emilia-romagna.it\/\">Emilia-Romagna region<\/a> will switch to the open source <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openoffice.org\">OpenOffice productivity suite<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/joinup.ec.europa.eu\/community\/osor\/news\/openoffice-italian-emilia-romagna-save-2-million\">Joinup reports<\/a>. It thus hopes to save some &euro;2 mn. euro on the licences that it would have spent for updating the ubiquitous MS Office suite. To prepare the migration, a three-month pilot involving 300 workstations has started at the region&#8217;s Directorate-General for Agriculture; all other regional departments will switch over to OpenOffice by the end of 2014. The region employs some 3,545 office staff.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2013\/10\/apache-openoffice-4.0.png\" alt=\"screenshot of OpenOffice splash screen\" width=\"600\" height=\"426\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2887\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2013\/10\/apache-openoffice-4.0.png 600w, https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2013\/10\/apache-openoffice-4.0-300x213.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The region is currently using a ten year-old version of MS Office. Instead of spending &euro;2 mn. to upgrade 3,200 proprietary licences that are due to expire next year, the province decided to switch to OpenOffice which &#8220;offers basically the same functionality&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The region has set aside a budget of &euro;220,000 for the switch to OpenOffice; this budget includes a staff training element.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The administration of the Italy&#8217;s Emilia-Romagna region will switch to the open source OpenOffice productivity suite, Joinup reports. It thus hopes to save some &euro;2 mn. euro on the licences that it would have spent for updating the ubiquitous MS Office suite. To prepare the migration, a three-month pilot involving 300 workstations has started at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,30,15,9],"tags":[19,24,12,11,20,23],"class_list":["post-2886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-source-software","category-open-standards","category-politics","category-tech","tag-free-software","tag-odf","tag-open-source","tag-open-standards","tag-politics-2","tag-tech-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2886","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=2886"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2895,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2886\/revisions\/2895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}