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OpenCapannori

As stated in article appeared in the town of loschermo.it Capannori is reaping the fruits of choice back in 2005 to replace some expensive software and closed with the equivalent free software and free.

€ 300,000 are spared by the municipal administration in recent years by not having to sustain the cost of purchasing licenses to use.
This is really cutting unnecessary costs and, occasionally, even harmful.

For a more detailed analysis of catches your eye as a result of this gain is far from obvious choices and risky.
That should be the municipality of Capannori taken as an example to start the migration that is far less invasive.

In 2005, about 240 pc, has begun a gradual installation of the three largest and most popular free programs used in the world: "OpenOffice.org" for writing texts, presentations and other productivity office "Mozilla Thunderbird" for e-mail and calendar and "Mozilla Firefox" for browsing on the Internet.

Alongside these three flagship products are also other specific applications "Scribus" for creating, layout and production of printed material, "Gimp" for photo and "Dia editor for the description of the flows. There are still closed

applications which support the free ones.

the body makes extensive use of 'open source even within its own facilities. Suffice it to say that the corporate website, the electronic maps available to the public and professionals as well as the internal e-mail are handled through the appropriate application free and free.

" the commercial programs, which are still maintained in some areas, we have chosen to associate and those free Free says Councillor for Finance, Lara Pizza -. These, in fact, allow us to save money for the purchase of new versions or to update the licenses, pursuing our goals of innovation-effective, efficiency and transparency. We believe in open source and look forward to its ever-growing penetration in public administration. The City is also promoting this type of product, as the Linux courses organized by us, by the support to initiatives such as the Linux day and many activities in the field of free software that are carried out under the Youth Forum ".

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