Lyon city is dumping Microsoft Office and Windows for OnlyOffice and Linux

https://www.zdnet.com/article/this-city-is-dumping-microsoft-office-and-windows-for-onlyoffice-and-linux-heres-why/

by AdDisastrous7191

20 comments

  2. According to Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OnlyOffice).

    Are we sure that’s a good idea?

    **Organization**

    Based in Latvia, OnlyOffice owner Ascensio System SIA was a subsidiary of Russian-based New Communication Technologies. Due to EU economic sanctions targeting Russia, European organizations that used the commercial version of OnlyOffice were prohibited from doing so.

    **Russian ties**

    The connection between OnlyOffice and Russia has caused some controversy. The company has moved headquarters and attempted to hide its Russian ties through shell companies. The company develops its product in Russia and presents itself in the Russian market as a Russian company. For this reason some Ukrainian businesses have moved away from OnlyOffice.

  4. everybody and its dog including grandma and every organisation in the EU should do so, even SAP

  7. Absolutely ridiculous, using software developed by a Russian government-affiliated company whose entire business model is getting money from the Russian government for “import substitution”. They literally made all their money on Russia waging the war.

  10. Ah, so the logical response towards dumping absolutely everything American….is to use Russian software? Seriously?

  11. OnlyFans is ukranian. OnlyOffice is russian. Decide what you would rather use

  12. All I can say is OnlyOffice works pretty well with MS Office formats. Although I also got LibreOffice.

    I also uninstalled Windows and wiped the drive it was on. I’m using Linux (Arch Linux, CachyOS) exclusively now on my main computer. Gaming performance is actually better than before and I can even stream VR using ALVR.

  15. There is literally no sense into government using Windows over Linux. Not only do they not need to pay for a license, it is not tied to a US company that now openly practices data collection.

  16. Good luck. The Microsoft Office ecosystem is hard to escape.

  17. The Linux Foundation sponsors the Linux Kernel,

    now who are among the top sponsors of The Linux Foundation?

    That’s right; Microsoft, Google, Oracle, IBM, Intel, Facebook, Comcast, Amazon, Cisco, etc.

  19. Now if only the rest of Europe was also smart enough to switch to Linux options.

  20. This is a side question, but are all these governments also ditching AD/EntraID? How are they doing the whole enterprise management side of things? What MDM are they using to ensure endpoints have the correct apps, security settings, updates, etc deployed? Are the linux endpoints just going to be AD joined so they can login with their existing creds?

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