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SecularMotion

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Thu Aug 18, 2016, 06:13 AM Aug 2016

Lithuanian Police Switches To LibreOffice, Saves A Million Euro [View all]

The Lithuanian police force has switched to Free and Open Source office suite LibreOffice. LibreOffice will be replacing proprietary productivity suite on over 8000 workstations. This migration was completed in the month of June.

This is not the only implementation, Lithuanian police department is also testing the use of Ubuntu Linux to replace Microsoft Windows.

Open Source adoption is a growing trend in Europe and several European government departments have switched to the free and open source alternatives in recent years, mainly in order to save money in licensing costs.

Saving money is the main motive of Lithuanian Police as well. This switch to LibreOffice will save 1 million euro.

https://itsfoss.com/lithuanian-police-switches-libreoffice
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