“Lyon’s government employs almost 10,000 people, so losing it as a customer will briefly sting some regional Microsoft salespeople and partners but won’t make a noticeable dent in the software giant’s balance sheet.”
Lyon is moving 10,000 city employees from Microsoft Office to OnlyOffice, Linux and PostgreSQL. The stated reason is sovereignty and longer hardware life. It comes weeks after a Danish ministry announced the same move. Microsoft will not notice the money, but it will notice the trend.