German federal state migrates 30.000 PCs to LibreOffice
German federal state migrates 30.000 PCs to LibreOffice
Nearly a year ago, we posted about the German state of Schleswig-Holstein’s plan to move 30,000 PCs from Microsoft Office/365 to LibreOffice. Now, Stephane Fermigier from EuroStack – which promotes European technological sovereignty and open source – has posted an update, citing an article in the Ge...
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Mooorrre!
Beautiful .... I wish more and especially smaller organizations and businesses and groups just switch to LibreOffice because they don't really need all that complicated private overhead in order to do what they need to do.
They say this every year.
It's a negotiation tactic for their Microsoft licenses
Nah, they're serious about it. Note that it's just one of the 16 German federal states. The other 15 sadly don't have the necessary courage or integrity to make the switch.
Direct link to the LibreOffice blog post: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2025/03/13/updates-on-schleswig-holstein-moving-to-libreoffice/
Thanks, updated
Good luck with it. Hope it doesn't fail like the LiMux project back then.
Did that one actually fail for valid reasons, or just because Microsoft blackmailed the city by moving their headquarter location?
You might want to fix the typo in the title.