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There has been a certain amount of scaremongering among those watching EuroperCOs burgeoning rCLDigital SovereigntyrCY movement. Yes, there will be pitfalls and mistakes made along the way. The move is being made with
great reluctance, with grudging acceptance of the fact that the USA is
no longer an entirely reliable partner either politically or
economically.

Here <https://www.computerworld.com/article/4187951/how-frances-education-ministry-built-an-open-source-file-share-platform-for-400k-users.html>
is one remarkable success story: an open-source file-sharing platform
that is currently serving around 400,000 users, offering them up to
100GB of storage per user. And look at the budget: a limit of re410 per
user per year. And just three staff members handling it all.

In terms of comparison to USA-based proprietary offerings, Beno|<t
Pi|-dallu, national project manager for digital services at the French
Ministry of National Education, said

rCLThey are very happy to use it. They donrCOt make a comparison to
Google Drive or OneDriverCa, itrCOs just working.rCY

However,

The Collabora-based office application suite has been less
well-received, in part because its interface is unfamiliar to many
users. rCLWhen they want to edit documents, work on a [spreadsheet]
or something like that, they want it to be exactly like they are
used to rCo if they have Microsoft Office, they want [it] to work
the same, to have the same options,rCY he said.

I guess this is where Euro-Office comes in ...
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