On May 2, 2013, at 10:38 AM, Kracked_P_P---webmaster <[email protected]> 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 [email protected] 646-464-2314 (Eastern) www.solidoffice.com -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/marketing/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
