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Switzerland Puts 3,000 Federal Workstations on German Open-Source openDesk, With CHF 9M and a 2027 Deadline
Switzerland's Federal Chancellery announced on 2026-09-03 a CHF 9 million pilot moving 3,000 workstations (about 7% of a 54,000-computer federal estate) off Microsoft 365 onto openDesk, the German open-source collaboration suite, running in parallel with M365 rather than cutting over. The military's Cyber Command is on a faster track targeting October 2026, with the civilian rollout aimed at end-2027. This is the second consecutive week EU-sovereign replacements for US SaaS have surfaced as shipping procurement rather than policy talk, and it prices the switch at roughly CHF 3,000 per seat including migration.
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