Leipzig on course with free office package

The Münchner IT-Blog, the IT blog of Munich city council in Germany, reports that its fellow council in Leipzig started a migration to the free open source office suite OpenOffice earlier this year.

OpenOffice has since been installed on 3,900 of Leipzig’s 4,200 PC workstations and is now used as the standard office program within the council. A working group is currently busy linking Leipzig’s specialist procedures to OpenOffice.

Hannes Kästner, Leipzig city council’s IT-coordinator, says: “The switch in the office package is the first major open source project of Leipzig city council. Its aim is to reduce the dependency on proprietary software”.