A group of thirteen Copenhagen hospitals and their almost 25,000 workers will, over the next year, move to using LibreOffice, the community maintained and developed fork of the OpenOffice.org office suite. The plan, reported by OSOR.EU, is being embarked upon for "long term strategic reasons" and aims to save around 5.3 million euros in proprietary licence costs. The hospital group is moving to a virtual desktop based environment for its employees and the proprietary office package they use would require a license for every user in that scenario.