openoffice.org at the budapest metropolitan court
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OpenOffice.org at the Budapest Metropolitan Court
Ten years with OpenOffice.org
Laky, [email protected]
Outline
● The organization of the Hungarian Judicial system and the Metropolitan Court
● OpenOffice.org migration● Milestone 1. 18th and 19th
District Court of Justice in 2000● Milestone 2. The Pest Central District Court
of justice in 2003.● Milestone 3. The Labour Court in 2005
● Experiences
The Hungarian Judicial system
Supreme Court of Hungary
Courts of appealBudapest,Szeged, Pécs, Debrecen and Győr
Metropolitan Court + 19 county courts
district courts – local courtsBudapest Labour Court – 19 Labour Courts
The Metropolitan Court
● Headcount: 2557● 939 judges,
secretary, drafter● 1339 clerks● 2750 computeri-
sed workplaces● 14 buildings
The infrastructure of the information systems in 2010
● The courts in Hungary has a country wide network for the 158 court buildings
● The building blocks: Novell Netware, E-Directory, ZENWorks, Linux - OpenEnterprise Server etc.
● The Metropolitan Court is part of the country wide network
M1 - 18th and 19th District Court of Justice
● In 2000 the District Court moved to a new building.
● We planned a new thin client based system.
● The options were:● Oracle NC in Java environment,● WBT in MS environment,● SunRay thin clients in Sun environment,● LTSP based solution.
● We chose the SUN technology.
● SUN dropped up us to the oo.org express! :)
18th and 19th District Court of Justice
● 65 (98) SunRay Thin Clients (judges, clerks, court rooms)
● 3 network printers
● OpenWin/Gnome graphical user interface
● StarOffice 5.2
● Integrated to the network
● Linux/Windows application servers
Experiences
● It worked! And it till work in 2010!● The users could change from PC to thin clients.● The StartOffice 5.2
● had no Hungarian menus, (we translated) ● had no Hungarian spell checker● it was a not the same than MS Office.
But our users could change! (on going training programs)
● There were no migration problem at that time. :)
MS 2. The Pest Central Dist-rict Court of justice in 2003.
● In 2003-2004 we had to change the old PC-s at the district courts.
● We calculated that we can by● 110 PC with MSOffice and● 195 PC (80 more) if we chose OO.org
● The decision was we go with oo.org.
MS 2. Why we could do it in 2003?
● 18th and 19th District Court of Justice's thin- client and Star/OpenOffice.org based system was working.
● The OO.Org user base in Hungary reached the critical mass.
● The FSF.hu localization project had it's results. Since 2000 the Hungarian community (with the support of the government) made very good work for us.
● We had commercial supporting partner too. (Novell)
MS 2. The Pest Central Dist-rict Court of justice in 2003.
● Headcount: 747● 334 judges,
secretary, drafter● 367 clerks● 260 old PC (~500
in 2010)● 100 local printer● 14 network printer
Experiences
● For technical reason we had to do, a one weekend change project.
● On Monday the users could change from their old PC/MsOffice to new PC-s with OO.org
● The OO.org at that time:● had Hungarian menus, it were localized● had Hungarian spell checker (it was better than, the
MS Office had!)
So our users could change! (we held ongoing training programs)
● There were no real migration problem.
Experiences OO.org training
● In 2003/2004 we had to train for oo.org hundreds of users.
● The solution was an e-learning system (moodle) with hungarian ECDL compatible oo.org curriculum.
● The curriculum was developed by a Hungarian company with the help of the government.
● In 2003/2004 we had no Hungarian version of the oo.org user documentation.
E- learning
Experiences
Till 2003 at the Metropolitan Court, every new PC or thin client set in operation with
openoffice.org!
M3. The Labour Court in 2005.
● The Labour court was moved to a new building.
● We set in operation 90 dual boot (Linux/Windows) PC-s, with certainly OO.org
● The Linux environment was based on NLD, and it was integrated into the country wide network.
● The change to OO.org on every PC went trouble free.
● This was the 3. building in which we used only OO.org.
Experiences
● The permanent revolution (Lenin:) is the our friend.
● We need ongoing word processor courses - not concrete product courses.
● Today there are good documentations, e-larning tools and curriculums, so the training is not problem!
Experiences
● Oppositionals● The “lazy “ sysops.● The “lazy” programmers.● and the users who were trained to the use of a
concrete product.
● Technical problems● The features in ODF.
ODF register the printer you used (It is solved in oo.org 3.0)
● Old winword “templates”, used till the winword 2.0
Experiences
● Till 2003 at the Metropolitan Court we set in order every PC/ Thin Client with OO.org
● In 2008 only the 12 % of the workplaces used MS Office!
● In 2010-2011 we plan to reach the 5%!● In the country wide information network,
on all the courts in Hungary, the 56% the used Office applications is OO.org(!) in 2010!
Experiences
Year PC Thin client
Sum MS Office
( Ft/licence)
The savings
2003 618 0 618
~ 86000 226 696 000 HUF
2004 190 10 200
2005 530 0 530
2006 183 95 278
2007 240 0 240
2008 60 400 460
2009 30 280 310
2010 0 0 0
Sum: 1851 785 2636
Experiences
Till 2003 we saved
226 696 000 HUFBC: 968,786 EURAC: 797,422 EUR
Thank You for your attention!