In June 2013, the government of the Italian province of South Tyrol will be switching 7000 PCs in administration and "many more thousands" PCs in health services using LibreOffice and ODF.
The same InfoWorld article reported that IBM (which supports the ODF format) threatened to leave standards bodies that it said allow dominant corporations like Microsoft to wield undue influence.
The executive director is Marino Marcich, who served for four years in the Bush administration's State Department prior to joining the ODF Alliance.
By definition, OSP represents all telecom equipment and services related to the network installation from the exchange Main Distribution Frame (MDF) or Optical Distribution Frame (ODF) to the subscriber premises (or to other MDF/ODF).