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Migrating
to LibreOffice
for enterprises
and public
administrations
The office suite is a key component of any enterprise workflow, and is essential for personal productivity. LibreOffice is a viable replacement for Microsoft Office, and can significantly reduce the Total Cost of Ownership of PCs in enterprises and public administrations because of the substantially lower migration cost (in comparison to the cost of the proprietary license). This leaflet gives an overview of the migration process, based on some successful European case studies.
LibreOffice is a Free Software suite for personal productivity for MS Windows, Mac OS X and GNU/Linux, offering six feature-rich applications.
LibreOffice uses the ISO standard Open Document Format (ODF), recognized by governments and organizations, and based on true open standards.
LibreOffice reads and writes Microsoft proprietary file formats, from the legacy DOC, XLS and PPT to the latest DOCX, XLSX and PPTX (Office Open XML).
LibreOffice also handles the Hybrid PDF format, a standard PDF file which em-beds an editable ODF document. These files can be opened by LibreOffice as ODF documents, and by other software as plain PDF files.
LibreOffice provides shortcuts to send documents as e-mail attachments in all available formats: ODF, PDF and MS Office formats, including legacy ones.
LibreOffice installs free fonts, designed to be compatible with every operating system and therefore able to further increase interoperability.
LibreOffice Migration Protocol
The protocol is a reference for migra-tions, based on best practices from some of the most successful projects (such as the city of Munich in Germany, Regione Umbria in Italy, and several enterprises and public administrations in Europe).
Some Large Migrations
City of Munich (Germany)
15,000 PCs from Windows
and MS Office to Linux and LibreOffice
Copenhagen Hospital System
25,000 PCs from MS Office to LibreOffice
Comunitat Valenciana (Spain)
120,000 PCs from MS Office to LibreOffice
French Government
500,000 PCs of 15 Ministeries from MS Office to LibreOffice
More Information
The Document Foundation represents the LibreOffice global community
www.libreoffice.org
blog.documentfoundation.org
info@documentfoundation.org