The North German state of Schleswig-Holstein plans to switch to open source software… he says Mike Saunders from LibreOffice.
"By the end of 2026, Microsoft Office will be replaced by LibreOffice and the 25.000 computers used by civil servants (including teachers) and the Windows operating system will be replaced by 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 the transition to open source is already in the works and pointed out that 90% of management meetings during the pandemic were conducted using the platform teleconferenceJitsi open source.
"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 they will use as a standard has not yet been chosen, but five different ones are being considered distributions that suit their purposes.
