German government moves closer to ditching Microsoft: "We're done with Teams!"
German government moves closer to ditching Microsoft: "We're done with Teams!"
Plans to go open-source were drawn up by Schleswig-Holstein as far back as 2017. In 2021, the state found another incentive to make the switch: Windows 11's...
if all goverment entities in the EU spent the money they pay for MS licenses on free software instead, they could fund hundreds of free software developers. How cool would that be?
Hundreds? I think you mean tens of thousands. Microsoft products are expensive and their costs are embedded in everything.
Need a replacement workstation? Add an extra hundred for the unavoidable cost of Windows.
Office and Teams are an ongoing subscription fee that costs about $100 per employee. Sharepoint licenses run over a thousand a year before you add in custom modules.
Microsoft's Azure cloud host is now running most things like your company's exchange server - so you pay for the Exchange service subscription AND the hosting costs.The list goes on.
The EU does fund the development of free software projects, the NGI Zero fund for example funds more than 1000 projects!
The NGI Forum just concluded: https://ngi.eu/
if they actually spend it, instead of than celebrating the immense savings.
Very cool. Especially if their work benefits everyone. Maybe they can even fix kerning in LibreOffice for everyone.
Excellent! Returning to software which goal is "how can I make this easier and better for the user", instead of software made by the philosophy "how can I force the user to buy more payed services and how can we mine more data about the user".
Hope more will follow as this will probably improve foss and make work life better for everyone :]
Paid subscription services
Many Bundesländer and cities are just embracing MSFT even more with Win 10's end and hop onto M365 with Exchange Online, which locks them in even more. This is the outliner.
Teams is just a Trojan horse for SharePoint
Office is a Trojan horse for teams
Windows is a Trojan horse for office.
The MS ecosystem is a hollow wooden horse matryoshka doll
I’m actually almost entirely certain that teams is going to become the new outlook soon
Teams is dogshit. Every time they push an upgrade, it makes my job selling it so much more difficult.
Godspeed Germany, I hope you find a better solution shortly. It can’t be that difficult.
It is not. I am part of a small company (say 25 people) and we use combination of Rocket Chat, Jitsi, and Nextcloud (among other apps). It is literally unlimited licenses, forever, and it will keep working until the heat death of the universe, with no need to update ever until it stops working. Costs 60$ a month for a server to run these, plus Gitlab and tons of other services.
If you are interested in the Germans public sectors open source developments check out openDesk: https://www.opendesk.eu/en
If you want to know more, also take a look at openCode and ZenDis, the (kinda) government institution behind it.
Me too, Germany
I just hope that sme of those saved €millions head towards Linux / Libre Office
I see they will use libreoffice & Linux and it's all good but what are they replacing Teams with?
I dont know what teams offers that networked attached storage running and a self hosted rocket chat service couldn't do.
I dont believe they were saying teams is irreplaceable.
I would also be interested to know wa govt selects as an alternative.
Good, now dump bibis nazi terror state.
Can we stop rehashing this story?
