Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Spain's Extremadura starts switch of 40, 000 government PCs to open source

On May 2, 2013, at 10:38 AM, Kracked_P_P---webmaster <webmaster@krackedpress.com> wrote:

> On 05/02/2013 10:03 AM, Fabian Rodriguez wrote:
> > On 2013-05-02 09:25, Kracked_P_P---webmaster wrote:
> > > Fabián, you are saying that these 40,000 PCs would use Linux and
> > > LibreOffice, instead of Windows and MS Office?
> > According to the article, yes. I am just confirming what I saw.
> >
> > I also visited the Andalucía region and it's the same scenario there.
> > That was *in 2007*.
> >
> > > I am really glad that Fabián let us know about the Spanish region that
> > > is switching.  We need to see more of that. Yet we really need a list
> > > somewhere reflecting these articles and the numbers.
> > White paper / use cases from the commercial support companies behind
> > GNU/Linux and those listed for LibreOffice (where is that list again)
> > should help.
> >
> > Not every company thinks about writing those and making them public, though.
> >
> > F.
>
> Do you agree with me about having a list of "known" articles and making an "outline" style of 
> list showing the governments, businesses, etc., who switched?  The would be much easier that 
> telling the potential user, or manager, to go online and "Google" for articles and/or go to one 
> of LO's pages for a list of articles.
>
> I do not have the time and such to search for all of these articles and white papers for the 
> information.  It would be a good idea of having a wiki page set up where a "poster" would list the
> organization name and location
> number of PCs if known
> a few sentences about the organization, business, government [maybe]
> the URL where the info was published
>
> all organized by country.
>
> I know there is a page that list articles by region, but it does not help with a quick look at 
> the who and how many have switched.

I helped maintain this page a few years ago. It should provide a good starting point for what you 
need-- http://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Major_OpenOffice.org_Deployments

-Ben


Benjamin Horst
bhorst@mac.com
646-464-2314 (Eastern)
www.solidoffice.com


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