The northern German state of Schleswig-Holstein plans to switch to open source software code... he says Mike Saunders from LibreOffice.
"By the end of 2026, Microsoft Office will be replaced by LibreOffice on all 25.000 computers used by civil servants (including teachers) and the operating system Windows will be replaced by the GNU / Linux. "
The Foss Force website reports:
That appears to be over, as steps to transition from proprietary to open software have already been approved by the Schleswig-Holstein state parliament, Jan Philipp Albrecht, minister of digital media, said in an interview.governmentof the state.
A German computer magazine was published on heise.de (Google Translate version). In the interview, Albrecht said that the transition to open source is already underway and pointed out that 90% of management meetings during duration of the pandemic was conducted using the Jitsi open source video conferencing platform.
"We have been testing LibreOffice in our IT department for two years now and our experience is clear: it works," he said.
"This also applies, for example, to editing Microsoft Word documents with comments…"
The Linux distribution that they will use as a template has not yet been selected, but they are considering five different distributions that suit their purposes.