Germany's Schleswig-Holstein Completes Migration to Open Source Email
7 hours ago
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- Schleswig-Holstein migrated its state administration email system from Microsoft Exchange and Outlook to Open-Xchange and Thunderbird.
- The transition affected 30,000 employees and moved over 40,000 mailboxes containing 100 million emails and calendar entries.
- The state adopted Open-Xchange as its email server and Thunderbird as the email client.
- The migration faced challenges like downtime and delays but was completed successfully.
- Schleswig-Holstein is also rolling out LibreOffice to replace Microsoft Office as part of its broader open source strategy.
- Digitization Minister Dirk Schrödter highlighted the pioneering nature of this large-scale open source transition.