Federal authorities of the Swiss Confederation recently launched a pilot program to replace Microsoft 365 tools with open-source alternatives. The Federal Chancellery's plan calls for investing 9...
Yeah, I can see the point. Moving away from Microsoft sounds good in theory, but actually replacing everything without causing problems is probably the hard part
Exactly. The technology itself is probably the easier part. Getting people comfortable with a completely different workflow is where things can get complicated
This comes up at my job a lot. We end up not doing things because the staff whine about it. No where else have I worked have I seen such whining. It’s your fucking job. You can use whatever you want on your home computer. Now stop SSH’ing into production and fucking use source control.
Honestly, for Office, Outlook and Teams you can find alternatives. But in the identity field (Entra), it gets more complicated. No all-in-one replacement options out there that cover everything Entra does, so you end up having to stitch together a bunch of stuff.
I’m all for ditching closed services, especially for governments, but there will be a couple of difficult years before investment in open-source software produce solutions that can match. So, no better time than the present, eh?
Partly. There is a lot of specialized software out there, which links into Microsoft Office in some way. Replacing all of those connections can be really hard.
Yeah, that’s probably the biggest challenge. It’s not just replacing the main apps it’s all those smaller integrations and workflows people rely on every day
Yeah, I can see the point. Moving away from Microsoft sounds good in theory, but actually replacing everything without causing problems is probably the hard part
The tech is ready, the training of people is the hard part.
Exactly. The technology itself is probably the easier part. Getting people comfortable with a completely different workflow is where things can get complicated
This comes up at my job a lot. We end up not doing things because the staff whine about it. No where else have I worked have I seen such whining. It’s your fucking job. You can use whatever you want on your home computer. Now stop SSH’ing into production and fucking use source control.
It’s really a problem of poor management , here.
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Honestly, for Office, Outlook and Teams you can find alternatives. But in the identity field (Entra), it gets more complicated. No all-in-one replacement options out there that cover everything Entra does, so you end up having to stitch together a bunch of stuff.
I’m all for ditching closed services, especially for governments, but there will be a couple of difficult years before investment in open-source software produce solutions that can match. So, no better time than the present, eh?
Partly. There is a lot of specialized software out there, which links into Microsoft Office in some way. Replacing all of those connections can be really hard.
Yeah, that’s probably the biggest challenge. It’s not just replacing the main apps it’s all those smaller integrations and workflows people rely on every day