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Re:German state planning to switch 25,000 PCs to LibreOffice by sofixa on Thursday November 18, 2021 @10:45AM (#29266715)
What "enterprise software" is needed at a public administration? Almost all of it is custom ordered, so Linux compatibility can be a part of the requirements.

Outlook is a dumpster fire, and there are perfectly fine alternatives. Very few people actually need the full might of Excel, and you can always RemoteApp it to them, and have the rest use Libre Office. Or heck, provide them with actual tooling better fit for their requirements than Excel.

And in any case, IMHO, "public money, public code". Nothing should be paid for with public money without it being publicly accessible afterwards ( excluding weaponry of course).

Re:German state planning to switch 25,000 PCs to LibreOffice by oblio on Thursday November 18, 2021 @10:47AM (#29266749)
> Very few people actually need the full might of Excel

How's the groupware situation on Linux? Mail, calendars, adding shared meeting rooms, etc.

Re:German state planning to switch 25,000 PCs to LibreOffice by sofixa on Thursday November 18, 2021 @11:02AM (#29266942)
On Linux you can use a number of thick or web clients for any sort of groupware - Exchange, Office 365, OnlyOffice, Nextcloud, Collabora, Zoho something?
Re:German state planning to switch 25,000 PCs to LibreOffice by silisili on Friday November 19, 2021 @08:50AM (#29277071)
I used Evolution for years, and it worked really well.

Anymore I just keep Outlook web open in a web browser though. Not because Evolution is lacking, I just didn't really see the point in setting it up anymore.

Re:German state planning to switch 25,000 PCs to LibreOffice by ognarb on Thursday November 18, 2021 @01:03PM (#29268446)
KMail, Kalendar, Thunderbird, Nextcloud Groupware are all open source groupware solution what works on Linux.

KMail was actually financed for some time by the german gouvernment.