2. 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
3. The Hungarian Judicial
system
Supreme Court of Hungary
Courts of appeal
Budapest,Szeged, Pécs, Debrecen and Győr
Metropolitan Court + 19 county courts
district courts – local courts
Budapest Labour Court – 19 Labour Courts
5. 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
6. 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! :)
7. 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
8. 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. :)
9. 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.
10. 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)
11. 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
12. 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.
13. 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.
15. Experiences
Till 2003 at the Metropolitan Court, every
new PC or thin client set in operation with
openoffice.org!
16. 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.
17. 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!
18. 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
19. 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!
