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Re:German state planning to switch 25,000 PCs to LibreOffice by nivenkos on Thursday November 18, 2021 @09:46AM (#29265973)
That's less of an issue though as it's a bit easier to migrate. If everything were already on Linux, then switching cloud providers is much simpler than switching the desktop systems themselves.

Also from my own enterprise experience, Office 365 cloud has still got a long way to go.

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Re:German state planning to switch 25,000 PCs to LibreOffice by Yizahi on Thursday November 18, 2021 @09:58AM (#29266127)
That's the thing though - if cloud office has 80-90% of functionality of common desktop office then it's completely covers open source office value proposition. And for the rest several percent of power users open office is still lacking and not an option to switch.
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Re:German state planning to switch 25,000 PCs to LibreOffice by mc32 on Thursday November 18, 2021 @10:11AM (#29266273)
It depends. If you have regulations that influence retention and audit trail etc it’s less easy to migrate.
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