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they will save 188,000 € on Microsoft license fees per year

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[–] BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world 9 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Good on them. Those are all solid choices.

I prefer Evolution over Thunderbird, personally. But to be fair, there aren’t any mail clients for Linux that I would say I genuinely like. I’m always open to suggestions, though.

[–] Cenzorrll@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago (4 children)

I'm not seeing nextcloud mentioned in the article. If they are moving to nextcloud, I wish them the best. It's great for my personal use, but from my experience it's lacking in what I would expect in a work environment. With a government entity coming to use them, it would be fantastic to see some improvements on them because they're almost there.

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[–] toastmeister@lemmy.ca 7 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

An interesting fact about Europe is they've long disobeyed their own procurement laws to choose Microsoft software, whether its corruption or what I've got no idea, I assume so though.

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[–] Wolf@lemmy.today 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I'm more surprised that a city in Germany didn't switch to Linux a decade or more ago.

Late to the party is still showing up, good for them.

[–] unabart@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 days ago

Too busy faxing each other. Germany is Luddite Land, by choice.

Source: moved here 7 years ago. Germans are a weird bunch. Change is not welcome in just about any form.

Nice to see them adopt the open source apps, though. They can probably get some screaming deals on some US Robotics 56k modems on eBay Local.

🤪😘

[–] rottingleaf@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago (3 children)

I think they have already switched and went back at some point?

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[–] lechekaflan@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago

There in that place where closed systems are frowned upon, Install Linux, Problem Solved.

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