Swiss Government Plans Open-Source Office Environment for 3,000 Staff
The pilot is a parallel system, not a switch: Switzerland keeps Microsoft 365 running while it tests whether open-source tools can sustain government work, and a full migration decision remains open.
Reporting from 1 source: GIGAZINE.
The Swiss federal government is building an open-source work environment for about 3,000 employees, targeting availability by the end of 2027. The move follows a pilot called PoC BOSS, in which 172 staff from several ministries tested the openDesk suite. The cabinet judged the tools usable for standard tasks, though large video conferences showed performance limits. The new environment will run in parallel with Microsoft 365, not replace it, and full migration remains undecided.
The pilot, called PoC BOSS, drew on openDesk, a suite assembled from several open-source components rather than a single application. The Swiss federal government plans to put the environment in front of about 3,000 employees by the end of 2027, running it as a separate system alongside Microsoft 365. The cabinet has not decided on a full migration.
- Open-Xchange: email and calendar
- Nextcloud: file management
- OpenProject: project management
- XWiki: wiki
- Jitsi: audio and video conferencing
- Element: instant messaging
- Univention: ID and access management
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