Another German state heads down the open source sovereignty road
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern ditches SharePoint while Bavaria also mulls Microsoft alternatives
Other regions of Germany are starting to move away from proprietary tools and cloud services from the US in favor of FOSS.
The state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, in the northeast of Germany, has confirmed it is on the road to digital sovereignty and in the process of moving to Nextcloud in place of Microsoft SharePoint.
So far, around 5,000 staff are using their new FOSS tools for chat, video conferencing, and groupware, but the plan is to roll it out to more than 50,000 public employees. It is also using OpenProject. For now, the plan is to keep Microsoft client OSes, changing the groupware tools first. This is not a Linux migration… yet.
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (sometimes Anglicized as Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania) is Germany's least densely populated state. It sits between Schleswig-Holstein to its west and Poland to its east. We mentioned Schleswig-Holstein last...
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