Following a successful pilot project, the northern German federal state of Schleswig-Holstein has decided to move from Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Office to Linux and LibreOffice (and other free and open source software) on the 30,000 PCs used in the local government. As reported on the homepage of the Minister-President: Independent, sustainable, secure: Schleswig-Holstein will […]
    • xePBMg9@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
      13·
      8 months ago

      Microsoft is dispatching their special sales team as we speak.They are equipped with the latest gear and a special budget for a list of important, special people.

      • Sakychu@lemmy.world
        5·
        8 months ago

        The Northern most State in Germany switched to Unix based OS just 5 years ago. Let’s hope that they don’t switch back, it was rather expensive

  • whereisk@lemmy.world
    8·
    8 months ago

    Is my understanding that there have been a few false starts in Germany with open source in government accurate?

    • erAckOPMA
      12·
      8 months ago

      There was the particular LiMux one in Munich that was “solved” by Microsoft moving their head quarter to a district of Munich and the then new conservative coalition in town government thanked them by rolling all back and buying MS products instead.

      Someone gave a little overview in that Hacker News topic mentioned.

  • Oka@lemmy.mlEnglish
    3·
    8 months ago

    I hope the don’t like using the scroll wheel on documents.