Windows, Office and Azure all being replaced. Aarhus announced they already reduced their dependence and their bill went from 800k dkk/year last year to 225k this year.

Replacement should be open source and European.

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    Can’t read the article because of paywall but I’d say any level of government moving away from big tech is good experience and an example for top level government to follow later. All I could find is that they moved to a German provider.

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      A German provider that offered to deliver the service at a fourth the cost of what Microsoft was charging. 🤣

      And the Government recently decided to make guidelines to help organizations both private and public to smoothly move from American services and software solutions to European equivalents. This could be part of that effort.