There is the whole thing with Schleswig-Holstein at least. I’m not sure about how far around that is but they are planning to move to an open source stack. I’m also not sure how much money Microsoft will try to throw their way; I doubt they’ll offer to move their German HQ to Kiel.
If they moved it to Kiel, I don’t know what would happen to Munich and their Microsoft policy. One can only hope the federal politicians aren’t as corrupt as the ones in Munich, but they are just people too.
Nearly every government in Europe is beholden to Microsoft. There was a news article recently about how only one single municipality in the Netherlands hosted their own services on their own hardware. If Germany, the probably least digitally progressive country in the EU, suddenly decides to do more than just talk about opensource and actually use it across all government agencies, it would be a huge signal.
Only time will tell. Trump better keep beating his great big drum to keep the pro-opensource voices strong. Without it, it would be back to business in no time.
There is the whole thing with Schleswig-Holstein at least. I’m not sure about how far around that is but they are planning to move to an open source stack. I’m also not sure how much money Microsoft will try to throw their way; I doubt they’ll offer to move their German HQ to Kiel.
If they moved it to Kiel, I don’t know what would happen to Munich and their Microsoft policy. One can only hope the federal politicians aren’t as corrupt as the ones in Munich, but they are just people too.
Nearly every government in Europe is beholden to Microsoft. There was a news article recently about how only one single municipality in the Netherlands hosted their own services on their own hardware. If Germany, the probably least digitally progressive country in the EU, suddenly decides to do more than just talk about opensource and actually use it across all government agencies, it would be a huge signal.
Only time will tell. Trump better keep beating his great big drum to keep the pro-opensource voices strong. Without it, it would be back to business in no time.
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