Hello Maël,
AFAIK Wikipedia is still correct on this matter. For the moment there is no company in Finland that actively sells of promotes LibreOffice support, so there is no statistics/news etc available. We have promoted LibreOffice as part of our project www.valo-cd.net (and .fi in Finnish) and I think it is farily widely used in smaller organizations with the motivation to save money. Also many people use Google Docs, which supports ODF formats, but I guess that does not count.
Sorry for not being able to help you more this time.
Personally I'd love to see ODF spread and MS Office sales get slashed, as then the whole MS business would crumble, but it does not look like that at the moment. Many are switching to Office 365 which AFAIK does not have any kind of ODF support.
2013/11/26 Maël Brunet mael@openforumeurope.org:
Dear Ilkka, Otto,
I am preparing a short report on the state of ODF adoption in public administrations across Europe and I was hoping you could enlighten me about the situation in Finland. All I could find was a reference on this wikipedia page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenDocument_adoption#Finland which I'm not sure is accurate or up to date. I want to know about actual adoption on the ground not just official guidelines.
I am also curious about what COSS is doing these days and see if we could cooperate in any way. I understand OFE and COSS have worked together occasionally in the past but lost touch in recent years. As you may know OFE is an independent, not-for-profit industry organisation supported by major IT suppliers as well as SMEs, user and consumer organisations (including FSFE which is how we know Otto), and national partners across Europe. Our goal is to promote an open, competitive ICT market - FOSS being of course a key component of this and a strong focus for us. We have collaborators in the UK but are mainly active at EU level, monitoring policy developments (attached our monthly newsletter which will give you an idea of some of the current issues we are looking at) and working on a number of projects. One example which you might find of interest is our bi-annual reports on the improper use of brand references in public procurement for IT in Europe (attached a copy of the latest). We have a presence in Brussels and very good contacts within the European institutions.
I would be interested to learn more about current projects and activities in COSS. For info we are holding our next bi-annual executive council in London on December 4, you are welcome to join or participate remotely as observers.
Best regards,
-- Maël Brunet Director, European Policy & Government Relations OpenForum Europe tel +3222100280 web http://www.openforumeurope.org Follow us on Twitter @OpenForumEurope