• zebidiah@lemmy.ca
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    3 days ago

    didn’t another german state already try this and fail pretty spectacularly?? cost them WAY more money and then they ended up rolling back to m$??

    given that, this is fantastic news! it’s good to see people learn from past failed implementations, hopefully learn from their mistakes, and try again instead of just blaming it on bad software

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      2 days ago

      I’ve been trying to find a source but from what I remember the transition was in maybe Munich and it was going fine.

      Microsoft opened a new sales or operation center there and got cozy with the government there as quickly as possible to turn them back into a customer.

      EDIT: Here is the LiMux endeavor.

      Microsoft had announced in 2013 its willingness 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.