Schleswig-Holstein , region in northern Germany, as part of the initiative By getting rid of dependence on one supplier Plans Translate all computers of civil servants, including teachers in schools, open software.
At the first stage, until the end of 2026, it is planned to replace MS Office on LibreOffice, and later replace Windows on Linux. Migration will affect about 25 thousand computers in various state institutions and will be carried out in accounting problems arising from the transition to Linux government agencies of the city of Munich.
The decision on migration is already considered by the Schleswig-Holstein Parliament and confirmed in Interview with minister of digital technology of this region. It is noted that the transition to the open software is already in the process – currently transferred to an open platform for video conferencing jitsi and for Two years old testing LibreOffice and browser solutions based on the open package PHOENIX (OnlyOffice, NextCloud, Matrix). At the test stage, there are also solutions based on five different Linux distributions, which will determine the optimal distributional distribution.