(I hope this is the most suitable list for these news.) Ministry of Justice of Finland has made the decision to adopt the Open Source OpenOffice.org suite as its office software from beginning of 2007. Ministry of Justice and its branch of administration will also adopt OpenDocument Format standard as the file format for its documents.
All 10000 Windows workstations of the ministry and its branch of administration will be fitted with OpenOffice.org suite and readiness for OpenDocument by end of 2006. OpenOffice.org replaces currently used Lotus SmartSuite software so that OpenOffice.org will cover about 85% of total use, while Microsoft Office will cover about 15%. The Ministry of Justice published a report in early 2005, which recommended transition to OpenOffice. After the report, the ministry started a pilot phase with over 150 users, ending in September 2006. Results of the pilot were that the functionality of OpenOffice was sufficient for the administrative branch of Ministry of Justice and that the compatibility with Microsoft Office was high. Piloting used OpenOffice.org version 2, which uses OpenDocument standard as its default file format. OpenDocument was accepted as international ISO standard (ISO 26300) in May 2006. The reports of the Ministry of Justice are publicly available, as are an installation manual and a user's guide. The publications are available (in Finnish) from: http://www.om.fi/30801.htm http://www.om.fi/Etusivu/Julkaisut/Julkaisusarjat/Toimintajahallinto/Toiminnanjahallinnonarkisto/Toimintajahallinto2006/1160733641585 http://www.om.fi/Etusivu/Julkaisut/Julkaisusarjat/Toimintajahallinto/Toiminnanjahallinnonarkisto/Toimintajahallinto2006/1157538492255 http://www.om.fi/Etusivu/Julkaisut/Julkaisusarjat/Oikeusministerionjulkaisuja/Julkaisujenarkisto/Oikeusministerionjulkaisuj%20%20%20%20a2006/1161942336573 Some older official information regarding the migration project is available in English: http://ec.europa.eu/idabc/en/document/4105/469 http://hiisi.fi/blog/post/2005/03/22/ministry-of-justice-prefers-xml/ For more information in Finnish, see the Finnish Native-Lang project page: http://fi.openoffice.org/julkiset.html#uutinen_20061205 Marko Grönroos Marketing contact Finnish OpenOffice.org project http://fi.openoffice.org/ -- Marko Grönroos, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (http://www.iki.fi/magi/) -- Work: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (http://stonesoft.com/) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
