German state Bavaria cancels billion euro contract with Microsoft
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German state Bavaria has canceled a nearly billion-euro agreement with US tech giant Microsoft to pursue a “sovereign basic workspace” based on open-source software.

Instead, Bavaria will pursue a “sovereign basic workspace” based on open-source components

This will hopefully encourage other administrations to do the same.

  • Marn@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    7·
    2 days ago

    It’ll will help if they even give a 10th of that € to the open source products they use. Imagine how great that could be for things like next cloud and open office

  • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
    161·
    2 days ago

    nearly €1 billion over 5 years

    I mean, it’s certainly a start. But for a company with a €246.74 billion annual revenue stream, of which around €74.01 billion comes from Europe… we’ve got a ways to go.

    • saltnotsugar@lemmy.world
      20·
      2 days ago

      A 200 million euro a year contract from a single client is absolutely massive. Even the larger companies I’ve worked for never got close to that number for large contracts of any kind. It’s certainly just a start but it’s quite the chunk and I’m willing to bet Microsoft has noticed.

      • freebee@sh.itjust.works
        7·
        2 days ago

        So they’ll promise a new office building or a datacenter to create jobs… Didn’t Munich do this once already and that was the result?

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LiMux?wprov=sfla1

        _In 2013, Microsoft had announced in 2013 its intention to move its German headquarters to Munich in 2016, which according to Reiter though, is unrelated to the criticism they’ve presented against the LiMux project.[9]

        In 2014, Munich deputy mayor, Josef Schmid, and mayor, Dieter Reiter, considered going back to Windows due to alleged productivity problems. However, Stefan Hauf, the spokesman of the Munich city council stated that the majority of issues stem from compatibility issues in OpenOffice, something which could be solved by switching to LibreOffice.[10] Moreover, the head of municipal IT services, Karl-Heinz Schneider, stated that most things were fine, and they had managed saved some 10 million euros (more than 13 million dollars). He emphasized that the number of complaints and malfunctions had not exceeded the usual level for an organization of this size.[citation needed]

        In 2016, Microsoft relocated its German headquarters to Munich.[11]

        In November 2017 Munich city council decided to revert to Windows by 2020 with all systems being replaced by Windows 10 counterparts. Some of the reasons cited were adoption and users being unhappy with the lack of software available for Linux. A report commissioned by Munich and undertaken by Accenture, found the most important issues were organizational.[citation needed]_

    • Ey ich frag doch nur@lemmy.world
      13·
      2 days ago

      For Europe it’s not about hurting Microsoft. It’s about being safe from trump’s capriciousness. Can’t trust an US government any more

    • 7EP6vuI@feddit.org
      2·
      2 days ago

      i’m pretty sure it’s not only about the money. microsoft fears that some state/country/city could be govern without them. up until now nobody thought about another os, windows was and is the default.

  • Enkrod@feddit.org
    10·
    2 days ago

    *largest by area, second biggest by population

    Also the state most friendly with US corporations, the most conservative (not equal to the most reich-wing), and usually the one most at odds with everything that doesn’t come with thick layers of proprietarity and intellectual property.

    This is not to say Bavaria = Bad (though, often it is)
    This is to say that Microslop is royally fucked when EVEN BAVARIA drops them.