Do migrations like this get easier each time? With prior art being available, and an ecosystem and pipeline starts to form around the new norm.

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LaurensBER an hour ago | parent | next [-]

The biggest challenge with these kind of migrations is training users, especially government employees. Switzerland is relatively highly educated so this might be less of a challenge than in other countries but it won't be easy.

The technical part is probably relatively easy in comparison. Especially because the stakes are low (parallel run with the existing system, good will from everyone involved).

	▲	marcyb5st 40 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Educated or not, people that have been using the same system for many years will have a tough time IMHO. Looking at my mom and dad interactions with any UI, it seems to me they don't really read what that menu is about, they just use "muscle memory" to navigate it. So I expect a drop in efficiency until that memory is rebuilt.
	▲	ur-whale an hour ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		> Switzerland is relatively highly educated so this might be less of a challenge than in other countries but it won't be easy. True, but that's not accounting for a bunch of typically Swiss cultural factors: - Swiss people tend to love to death the "one standard solution for one particular problem" approach - Swiss people tend to be quite change-averse relative to other nearby cultures. Don't get me wrong I love the Swiss to death, and the above cultural biases actually have their advantages, but re-training government employees is not going to be easy, however well educated they may be. Fortunately, there is another cultural Swiss bias that's going to help: most large Swiss organizations have been designed using the army as a model, which mean Swiss employees tend to obey orders quite well. So if the mandate comes from the top, it'll likely succeed. Eventually. Cause in Switzerland, they tend to take their time (yeah, that's another base cultural cliché, but I couldn't resist. And we're already deep into those already, why stop :-) ).

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com an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

With a couple of exceptions, my guess is that these migrations are part of the commercial negotiation pack of government procurement agencies.

At a certain point I’d expect that tech sovereignty concerns will tip while governments out of the US-vendor mindset.

	▲	walrus01 an hour ago \| parent \| next [-]
		As exemplified by a major project recently started by the French government: https://www.rfi.fr/en/france/20260417-france-to-remove-windo... https://www.techradar.com/computing/windows/france-has-ditch...
	▲	phorkyas82 an hour ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		I'd guess the hurdles are always more structural and organizational - as even with Microsoft stack itself. See for instance the Limux/Munic story: https://lwn.net/Articles/737818/