Open-Source Software Becomes a Standard In Dortmund, Germany

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Open-Source Software Becomes a Standard In Dortmund, Germany - Slashdot

The Council of the German city of Dortmund has announced that it's embracing free and open-source software, wherever possible. The Document Foundation reports: The Dortmund Council has declared digitalisation to be a political leadership task in its Memorandum 2020 to 2025. In the course of...

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Interesting story :) http://www.linuxvoice.com/the-big-switch/ It's funny that ED is also from Bavaria... seems like Süd Deutschland is a Linux HQ at the moment! :)

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Apparently they are in desperate need of bribe money again.

 

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Yeah. But this time, the waters are muddy. They first said: Opensource to prevent lock-in. And now "they" scream: Open standards to keep the data not locked-in, but propriety software is ok (and the world is swayed that way).
DOCX now is the "new open standard", which is slightly incompatible with ODF
The new MS is now small components, but making an open chain actually means pains.
You can have Jira or Azure, Azure is cheaper if you buy the whole package (and has less functionality, barely enough, for project management). But you get a "deal", and not so if you buy loose components.
In Germany, Suse is the de-facto (as it originates there).

But please note that MS needs these markets because IIS is dying (even Apache) and their browser is not growing

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