By Ludwig Bargagli, president of GuruAtWork
The Ministry of Defence has signed an important agreement with the Association LibreItalia NPO for the adoption of personal productivity software LibreOffice.
The agreement was signed by Sonia Montegiove , President of LibreItalia, and Ruggiero Di Biase, Rear Admiral and Director General Manager of Automated Information Systems of the Ministry of Defense.
LibreOffice is a free software, free to use , personal productivity and includes programs for word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, graphics and drawings, database and mathematical formulas.
To facilitate the migration process LibreOffice, the two organizations will work together creating educational content and online courses that will be published with Creative Commons license and made available to all who wish to use them.
According to the press officer LibreItalia The goal of the Ministry of Defence is to be independent from proprietary software applications aimed at the individual productivity and to adopt the document format standards and open Open Document Format (ODF).
The project provides a substantial cost savings, the migration of 150,000 PCs in LibreOffice will start in October 2015 and will be completed by the end of 2016.
Following European Union guidelines for the transition of public administrations to free software, local or central governments of France, Germany, Spain and other European countries have already undertaken projects for migration. Just as an example, the French Ministry of Interior, has already converted some 240,000 PCs in free personal productivity software.
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