The city of Lyonthe third major of France, has decided to take a step forward to depend less on the great technological ones, and has announced that It will progressively abandon the use of the Microsoft Office suite, and will change it for Onlyoffice, A suite developed by the Ascensio Systems company, based in Riga (Latvia).
At present, its version 3 is available and has GNU AFFERO GPL (AGPP) license, a GPL license with an additional clause, which adds the obligation to distribute the source code if it is executed to offer services through a computers network.
It is not the only step towards the Open Source software that the city authorities are going to give, since they have also confirmed that they will advance in the use of Linux as an operating system, and that they will use PostgreSQL for the management of database systems.
The objective, as they highlight in a statement, is «The strengthening of the technological sovereignty of the public service, and prolonging the useful life of computer equipment, thus reducing their environmental footprint«. They will also avoid being at the mercy of proprietary systems, and getting more control over their digital ecosystem. In addition, the change involves a commitment of the authorities with long -term flexibility, as well as greater control and efficiency of municipal costs.
This leads to the fact that in addition to the mentioned tools, Lyon also supports and employ the tools of the free suite and interoperable territoire Numérique Ouvert (open digital territory), developed in collaboration with SITIV, the Intercommunal Union of Information Technologies for Cities, and the Lyon Metropolis. At present, thousands of workers from nine local governments (communes) already use this suite.
The step taken by Lyon, whose City Council has about 10,000 workers, He has joined the dice a few days ago by the two main municipalities of Denmark, Copenhague and Aarhuswhich have announced that they have similar plans to abandon both Windows and Microsoft Office. The Ministry of Digitization of Denmark will also do.
