Ek-Hou-Van-Braai@piefed.social to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agoYet another European government is ditching Microsoft for Linux - here's whywww.zdnet.comexternal-linkmessage-square26fedilinkarrow-up1515arrow-down110 cross-posted to: buyeuropean@feddit.ukbuyfromeu@feddit.org
arrow-up1505arrow-down1external-linkYet another European government is ditching Microsoft for Linux - here's whywww.zdnet.comEk-Hou-Van-Braai@piefed.social to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agomessage-square26fedilink cross-posted to: buyeuropean@feddit.ukbuyfromeu@feddit.org
minus-squarevelocidinodinodino@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up85·2 days agoIt’s Schleswig-Holstein (a german state) and they’re pretty serious about it (they want to fully move to Open Source / Linux in the next three months)
minus-squareBuffalox@lemmy.worldcakelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up38arrow-down1·2 days agoThe article states it’s 30000 users! Doing that is 300 users per day! People who probably also want extra support initially. It would be extremely impressive to do it that fast.
minus-squarecrumbguzzler5000@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up18·2 days agoSurely with the money they would save in licensing they can hire more support staff to help bridge the gap
minus-squareBuffalox@lemmy.worldcakelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·edit-21 day agoI’m not concerned about the economy but the logistics. They will hopefully get it done, but I doubt they can do it in 3 months.
It’s Schleswig-Holstein (a german state) and they’re pretty serious about it (they want to fully move to Open Source / Linux in the next three months)
The article states it’s 30000 users! Doing that is 300 users per day! People who probably also want extra support initially.
It would be extremely impressive to do it that fast.
Surely with the money they would save in licensing they can hire more support staff to help bridge the gap
I’m not concerned about the economy but the logistics.
They will hopefully get it done, but I doubt they can do it in 3 months.