OpenOffice.org at the
Budapest Metropolitan Court

Ten years with OpenOffice.org

Laky, Norbertlakyn@fovaros.birosag.hu

Outline

The organization of the Hungarian Judicial system and the Metropolitan Court

OpenOffice.org migrationMilestone 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, Pcs, Debrecen and Gyr

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 5.2had 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 by110 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

OppositionalsThe lazy sysops.

The lazy programmers.

and the users who were trained to the use of a concrete product.

Technical problemsThe 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

YearPC Thin clientSumMS Office ( Ft/licence)The savings

20036180618

~ 86000

226696000 HUF

200419010200

20055300530

200618395278

20072400240

200860400460

200930280310

2010000

Sum:18517852636

Experiences

Till 2003 we saved

226696000 HUFBC: 968,786 EURAC: 797,422 EUR

Thank You for your attention!

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