25,000 Danish Hospital Staff Moving To LibreOffice

An anonymous reader writes with news that 25,000 staff across 13 hospitals in Denmark will be switching to LibreOffice over the course of the next year. "The group of hospitals is phasing out a proprietary alternative, 'for long term strategic reasons,' which at the same time saves the group some 40 million Kroner [about $7.7 million] worth of proprietary licenses. The ditching of the proprietary alternative is a consequence of the group's move to virtual desktops, allowing staff members to log in on any PC or thin client. The group found that deploying this new desktop infrastructure would 'trigger unacceptably high costs' for proprietary office licenses... The move is Europe's second largest migration project involving public administrations using an open source office suite."

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Re:LibreOffice vs OpenOffice

[Anonymous Coward]

And it's important to notice they asked for LibreOffice, not OpenOffice. The really free version.

Now that we've established that you're about 14: It's important to note that they're getting off a proprietary solution. Nothing more, nothing less.

The Danes likely neither know nor care about your and your playmates' little "We're giving Oracle the finger because WE CAN!!" hardons.

Re:Stroking a blow!

[hairyfeet]

So it IS the government saying "fuck the free market!" and trying to ram through formats. Thanks for clearing that up. Still won't work unless the danes are gonna give away free money to rewrite all those Excel sheets, data analysis software, etc. No what will happen is like most government crap they'll pass the costs over to businesses who will know have to deal with TWO Office suites and all the bullshit and compatibility that comes with it.

Because unless the Danes ONLY do business with the government (considering how much cash the US Gov blows like a crack whore in Vegas frankly some might actually fit that description) then they are STILL gonna have to be compatible with ALL the other businesses in their supply chain, that means MS Office.