German state moving 30,000 PCs to Linux and LibreOffice - The Document Foundation Blog
German state moving 30,000 PCs to Linux and LibreOffice - The Document Foundation Blog
Following a successful pilot project, the northern German federal state of Schleswig-Holstein has decided to move from Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Office to Linux and LibreOffice (and other free and open source software) on the 30,000 PCs used in the local government. As reported on the homepage...
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If they put as much money into these foss projects as they where giving microsoft before, maybe Libreoffice will become halfway decent.
I use Libreoffice and it's fine for a non-power user, but it sure has some rough edges
It has some rough edges to be sure. I've found myself fighting with it quite a bit. But it's usable.
I'm just glad there is more incentive for [organization] to help patch the issues.
While I'm all for OSS, I'm also objective enough to know where it's not a good idea. And I think this is one of them. They have commercial one available in their own country called softmaker, which comes with support which is really important for a business or organization. I've been using it for many years because the OSS where just not right for me. Also liked WPS more but Linux dev was slow, but now I found my match
LibreOffice does "develop and maintain a certification system for professionals of various kinds who deliver and sell services around LibreOffice."
But let's be honest, most seats at the government does not use anything much advanced anyway.
There are places where nested formulas in pivot tables are needed to work, but most places are using just simple documents.