Another major institution is moving away from Big Tech. More are expected to follow
They are so good at moving away from Microsoft that they did it twice!
Regional news website Mittelstand in Bayern reports that Microsoft services would have cost nearly €1 billion ($1.16 billion) over a five-year period.
Instead, Bavaria will pursue a “sovereign basic workspace” based on open-source components.
So it won’t save a billion euros because there will be costs to the new system too.
Edit: This is not just Microsoft office, this will be cloud storage, servers, security, and a whole bunch of other stuff I don’t know about. Those servers will have to be built and powered and staffed. Servers and staff are not free, they cost money.
yeah, but pretty sure it’s worth. the cost to download and install something like libreoffice is the same like ms office, but without the license fees. some ppl will need training tho
See edit. This is not just office people.
they already have other servers and staff. they just scale it up
And that costs money. JFC.
It’s usually cheaper in the long run to own something instead of renting it, especially if you don’t want to be locked into something susceptible to price increases.
I am also curious about what the actual cost would be, but I suspect it will be cheaper than renting the service from Microsoft. You get a lot of extra junk with subscriptions, and you don’t need to replicate that when you only pay for the stuff you need.
The point is solid though. We shouldn’t be selling these stories as cost cutting, but rather investing in a local community’s future
It does not mean a billion saved JFC.
Nor does it mean you’re not susceptible to price increases, because the next company can just increase prices. And they will because guess what costs tend to go up. JFC. Y’all have funny ideas how money works.
It does not mean a billion saved JFC.
I didn’t say that. I agreed with you that the true cost estimates should be listed and that the content of the article doesn’t back up the headline.
Nor does it mean you’re not susceptible to price increases, because the next company can just increase prices
The implication is that they would own the infrastructure directly instead of relying on someone else to provide the service.
If they did move to a small hosting provider, it would still be easier to negotiate a reasonable deal since you can always move to a competitor. Something that’s much harder to do if you move everything to the Microsoft ecosystem. I think people understand that costs will go up over time. What they’re trying to avoid is unpredictable and unreasonable price increases once MS knows that they don’t have other options.
Put simply, if you give away control, you’ll pay more in the long run.
Yeah it’ll only save nearly a billion euro instead of a billion euros.
What’s the difference between a million dollars and a billion dollars?
About a billion dollars.
This is not just Microsoft office, this was cloud storage, servers, security, and a whole bunch of other stuff I don’t know about. Those servers will have to be built and powered and staffed. Servers and staff are not free, they cost money.
So, no money for the project?
Surely the CSU will find ways to fuck it up before the new solution matures and proves itself. I have zero trust in any government led by Söder.
Hinter den Kulissen tobte monatelang ein erbitterter Streit innerhalb der bayerischen Regierungskoalition. Während das CSU-geführte Finanzministerium unter Albert Füracker primär bestehende Verträge konsolidieren und finanzielle Rabatte sichern wollte, drängte Digitalminister Fabian Mehring (Freie Wähler) vehement auf eine ergebnisoffene Neubewertung.
