Joinup, the EU’s public sector open source news site, reports that Italy’s Macerata province is halfway its migration to the free and open source LibreOffice suite as a replacement for Microsoft Office. LibreOffice is currently used on 230 of its 450 workstations. The migration is expected to be completed in December next year.
The same article also reports that Windows is being replaced by Linux as the workstation operating system used for non-specialised tasks on the provincial government’s PCs.
These moves are expected to save the provincial authority some €150,000 in 2014. For Italy as a whole, the Asca news agency states the LibreOffice 2013 Conference in Milan was told that migrating the public sector to LibreOffice could save the public purse €300-500 mn.