The City of San Javier, through the Department of New Technologies, is betting on the use of free software and open standards for the exchange of electronic documents, which in addition to financial savings in licensing the relationship of the citizen is provided with City Hall, no longer will need applications that involve an expense to complete the online relationship, he explained today the Councillor for New Technologies, David Martinez.
Currently they are already using OpenOffice and LibreOficce applications for office tasks, with a gradual replacement of the previous office suite.
Also, free software is also being used for email, corporate instant messaging, photo editing tools and in general which alternatives are available free and open-source software.
The software offers, among many other advantages, the ability to run, copy, distribute and to modify and improve it.
In addition to cost savings, since it is not necessary to pay for each copy or license granted independence to the provider to have open source, and avoid incompatibilities encouraging communication between different systems and formats.
Source: Ayuntamiento de San Javier