Do they mention what are they going to use instead in other articles?
giuliomagnifico · 2d ago
> The head of digital services at the Aarhus Municipality culture and citizens’ department, Bo Fristed, said a German service provider had already replaced Microsoft at the municipality
Maybe Hetzner for the storage and OpenOffice for the software?
fanatic2pope · 2d ago
OpenOffice is effectively abandonware at this point. LibreOffice would be what you'd want to use if you wanted to go that route.
Oh okay thanks, it's been quite a few years since I've used any “Office” products, I didn't know that!
constantcrying · 2d ago
The only real alternative is a hacked together mess of open source software projects.
The "Microsoft Alternative" does not exist, despite the EU distributing billions into small companies and open source projects.
Bureocratic institutions go to Microsoft because you can get a great all in one package, on top of which you can install your custom stuff. There is no actual replacement for that basis, you can't even buy it. At best you get the pieces someone else has thrown together.
klaas- · 2d ago
I would guess nextcloud
giuliomagnifico · 1d ago
Good point! It also includes a full “office suite”, maybe hosted on Hetzner and everything is kept is in Germany.
debarshri · 2d ago
may be openoffice?
moritzwarhier · 2d ago
As far as I know, OpenOffice is seriously outdated since the Oracle acquisition and LibreOffice fork happened, regardless of current licensing and brand publicity.
I'd always recommend LibreOffice.
jlpcsl · 1d ago
Hopefully they are real smart and replace it with transparent, verifiable, privacy respecting, freedoms respecting, neutral software: Free software and open source.
Maybe Hetzner for the storage and OpenOffice for the software?
https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2020/10/12/open-let...
The "Microsoft Alternative" does not exist, despite the EU distributing billions into small companies and open source projects.
Bureocratic institutions go to Microsoft because you can get a great all in one package, on top of which you can install your custom stuff. There is no actual replacement for that basis, you can't even buy it. At best you get the pieces someone else has thrown together.
I'd always recommend LibreOffice.