The most recent example of Microsoft and other ‘born in the USA’ software vendors being shown the door comes from the German state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.
“The transition away from Microsoft SharePoint has been completed step by step, without disruption or data loss for employees,” explained Marco Anschütz, the state’s CIO, in a statement. “Together with DVZ M-V, we have built a platform that runs reliably today and continues to expand step by step.”
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The statement was in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern’s announcement of its launch of a Nextcloud-based collaboration platform, which is expected to eventually serve 50,000 state and municipal employees. DVZ M-V is the state’s IT service provider, which is hosting the platform and taking care of most of the logistics to get it running.
So far, about 5,000 employees are actively using the platform for file sharing. By the time it’s finished, it will be expanded to include chat, videoconferencing, and groupware applications. That’s not as big a feat as it sounds, since Nextcloud ships with those capabilities ready to go. (Full disclosure: Nextcloud is a Platinum Sponsor of FOSS Force.)
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38…wow…that sends a clear message. But why that high? Do you drown in the worst kind of immigrants or is their marketing just more efficient there?
I’m in The Länd, and I don’t think the numbers in MV are that high. They’re dissatisfied with life, the wages are low, the jobs rare, fertile breeding ground for racism. Just speculating, but that’s what I expect.
Would make sense, yes.
It’s populism and lies
Probably…
The areas with the least immigrants tend to vote more afd for some reason
Why would they even do that…if all the evil immigrants are gone, why would i need the afd? :)
i don’t know, i will admit it might just be where i live, but we have a few sizeable immigrant and refugee communities in and near where I live. the only place I’ve seen the “worst kind of immigrant” was like fox news or other propaganda like that. most places i’ve lived, the immigrants were the best part of the community.
i’m not getting rid of this prejudice my dudes. i will die on this hill.
“the worst kind of immigrants” are those that don’t want to integrate but segregate and form their own previous culture but with german benefits. Or those that bring questionable values with them and act upon them. But sure, immigration is no inherently bad thing. We have many lovely foreigners or ex-foreigners here. But that topic is beyond the original topic :-)