Dutch tax office drops Microsoft 365 cloud for own servers and open source
Email and calendars move in-house in 2027, with European open source to follow. A government review had found the Microsoft 365 rollout locked the agency to one supplier with no exit.
Via TNW | Government-policy
The Dutch tax and customs administration has dropped its move to Microsoft 365 in the cloud. Its office software will instead run on servers it controls, together with European open source tools. State Secretary for Finance Eelco Eerenberg set out the plan in a letter to the Dutch parliament this week.
The change covers the Belastingdienst, Dutch Customs and the Benefits Agency. Email and calendars will move to the agency’s own servers in 2027. Open source tools for personal storage…
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