[tdf-announce] TDF releases White Paper to help migrations to LibreOffice

Berlin, March 27, 2013 - The Document Foundation releases a white paper 
to help organizations migrate to LibreOffice. Published on Document 
Freedom Day, the text explains how governments and enterprises can 
leverage Free Software to lower their IT expenditures and get rid of 
proprietary software lock-in.

Link to white paper: 
http://documentfoundation.files.wordpress.com/2013/03/tdf-migrationwhitepaper1.pdf.

According to the white paper, migrations to Free Software - and 
especially to LibreOffice - should follow a carefully crafted change 
management process, which needs to handle not only the technical 
aspects, which are actually the easiest ones to cope with, but also the 
barriers met when breaking long-term working habits.

LibreOffice liberates the users from proprietary document formats by 
adopting natively ODF (Open Document Format), which is the standard 
document format recognized by the largest number of organizations and 
supported by the largest number of desktop software (including Microsoft 
Office).

In addition, LibreOffice offers the largest set of import filters for 
proprietary document formats (including Microsoft Office, Publisher, 
Visio and Works, plus Corel Draw, Lotus 1-2-3 and WordPro, Quattro Pro 
and WordPerfect), and thus protects user investments in legacy 
applications, while providing a migration path to ODF.

Last but not least, LibreOffice templates are using only free fonts 
available on every OS which can be installed independently from any 
software package and thus foster interoperability between GNU/Linux, 
MacOS and Windows users as documents maintain their original layout on 
every platform.

LibreOffice is immediately available for download from the following 
link: http://www.libreoffice.org/download/. Extensions for LibreOffice 
are available from the following link: 
http://extensions.libreoffice.org/extension-center.

LibreOffice users, free software advocates and community members can 
support The Document Foundation with a donation at 
http://donate.libreoffice.org. Money collected will be used to maintain 
the infrastructure, and support events and marketing activities to 
increase the awareness of the project, both at a global and local level.

Short link to blog post: http://wp.me/p1byPE-n4.

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