Subj : Re: German state moving 30,000 PCs to Linux
To   : Warpslide
From : poindexter FORTRAN
Date : Fri Apr 05 2024 06:34 am

-=> Warpslide wrote to All <=-

 Wa> German state moving 30,000 PCs to Linux & LibreOffice

 Wa> Following a successful pilot project, the northern German federal state
 Wa> of Schleswig-Holstein has decided to move from Microsoft Windows and
 Wa> Microsoft Office to Linux and LibreOffice (and other free and open
 Wa> source software) on the 30,000 PCs used in the local government.


 They'll save on licenses for Office, volume licenses for Windows and
 they'll probably have enough clout to buy PCs without OEM licenses of
 Windows.

 Although, you have to appreciate Microsoft's savvy. Switch away from
 MS Office and you lose the online tools like Sharepoint, OneDrive, and
 the rest. Interesting that the EU has compelled Microsoft to unbundle
 Teams, I wonder if that had anything to do with the timing of their
 move.

 I think back to the early 2000s and realize I did a pretty good job
 with collaboration tools. I used IMAP for mail transport, set up an
 NNTP server with local groups for collaboration, Jabber for chat and
 LDAP for address books. Outlook back then talked to all of them, or you
 could use your own tools if you wanted.

 All of this was run off a Linux box running Samba, and later on, they
 added pretty decent AD support in with it.

 The only thing missing was group calendaring - which is a double-edged
 sword. I prefer people not put items on my calendar, it's too easy to
 abuse the privilege and it's too easy for items that could be handled
 in email to require a meeting.




.... Germany's official language is Portugese.
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