Linux and LibreOffice installed in schools, government offices and courts of Valencia

few days ago, the European Commission announced that the French Toulouse saved 1 million euros by replacing proprietary MS Office on the free LibreOffice. Upgrade lasted one and a half years, and part of the money saved Toulouse translated developers LibreOffice.

And now - another news story that demonstrates the enormous opportunities budgetary savings when switching to products Open Source.

Department of the Autonomous Region of Valencia (Spain) has released a new version of Lliurex - localized version of the distribution Edubuntu Linux. This distribution is set to 110,000 school computers in the region. With a new version 14.06 authorities noted the success of the project and noted that over the past 9 years Lliurex already сэкономил the state about 36 million euros .

Among the features of 14.06 - a new program LliureX-Lab, which allows teachers to use on multiple computers in a class of multimedia and interactive elements during a lesson, broadcast your screen to display students run group video conferencing to help students to solve the task.

Lliurex available in the corporate, school and home versions. Perhaps the teacher via video chat helps solve homework.





By the way, 120,000 computers in state institutions were transferred to Valencia LibreOffice more год back , including computers in schools and courts. Director General of Information and Computer Technology of Valencia said it would save 1, 5 euros per year on license fees. She emphasized more that LibreOffice has support for Valencian, which is missing in MS Office.

P.S. And at this time the school in Los Angeles spent ещё $ 115 million for the purchase of additional aypadov. As they say, anyone that.

Source: habrahabr.ru/post/231343/