Sadly, until three things happen, this is not likely to change.
LDAP for anything other than Windows needs to get way better, support for GPOs as extensively at Windows has is a requiernment.
Software, you can have the coolest OS in the world, but as long as it doesn’t have normal third party applications, it is not suitable for office or government work.
Technicians, you need to have knowledgable technicians to support the OS, without them there is no way any company or government would ever use it.
Well, on a national level when I think of Germany… Limux was very successful and not unpopular with users in the authorities. It wasn’t problematic either, but failed because Munich’s mayor is an MS fanboy and MS helped with lobbying.
If you look today, Schleswig Holstein, for example, uses a lot of open source and other federal states are slowly following suit. Lobbying is causing extreme problems.
So the main problem is lobbying and corrupt politicans
Of course, the industry will not be a pioneer. They use the most favorable offer for them and as long as there are no serious reasons, they will not switch unnecessarily. After all, they want to make a profit. So the countries have to be pioneers. This is where the problems mentioned above come in.
Thanks. I’ve only heard the narrative that users had compatability issues; I did hear Microsoft went heavy on pushing to get then back into the ecosystem, basically offering installs and the suite for practically free, but I also heard there was negative feedback from the Munich employees. I hadn’t heard about Munich’s mayor being an MS advocate.
The city council was overwhelmingly in favor at the time, as was the administration. There were also only positive independent studies until the very end, when a negative one came from a company that cooperates with Microsoft. That was the point at which the city council and administration were suddenly against Limux and made themselves dependent on MS again. There were also negotiations at the time regarding a Microsoft headquarters, which was subsequently built.
This is where the EU could step up and run an alternative.
Based on US Hardware sponsored software by MS etc. Like our EU Cloud…
Sadly, until three things happen, this is not likely to change.
Well, on a national level when I think of Germany… Limux was very successful and not unpopular with users in the authorities. It wasn’t problematic either, but failed because Munich’s mayor is an MS fanboy and MS helped with lobbying. If you look today, Schleswig Holstein, for example, uses a lot of open source and other federal states are slowly following suit. Lobbying is causing extreme problems.
So the main problem is lobbying and corrupt politicans
Of course, the industry will not be a pioneer. They use the most favorable offer for them and as long as there are no serious reasons, they will not switch unnecessarily. After all, they want to make a profit. So the countries have to be pioneers. This is where the problems mentioned above come in.
Thanks. I’ve only heard the narrative that users had compatability issues; I did hear Microsoft went heavy on pushing to get then back into the ecosystem, basically offering installs and the suite for practically free, but I also heard there was negative feedback from the Munich employees. I hadn’t heard about Munich’s mayor being an MS advocate.
The city council was overwhelmingly in favor at the time, as was the administration. There were also only positive independent studies until the very end, when a negative one came from a company that cooperates with Microsoft. That was the point at which the city council and administration were suddenly against Limux and made themselves dependent on MS again. There were also negotiations at the time regarding a Microsoft headquarters, which was subsequently built.