Although the digital services team doesn’t have full visibility into how Nuage has been received, Piédallu said feedback is positive, with the file storage and sync system largely invisible to users and operating well — aside from some bugs around synchronization at times. “They are very happy to use it. They don’t make a comparison to Google Drive or OneDrive…, it’s just working,” he said.
The Collabora-based office application suite has been less well-received, in part because its interface is unfamiliar to many users. “When they want to edit documents, work on a [spreadsheet] or something like that, they want it to be exactly like they are used to — if they have Microsoft Office, they want [it] to work the same, to have the same options,” he said.
Local administrations and school districts are not required to use Nuage; they can choose whether to deploy the platform or rely on proprietary software. Microsoft SharePoint and Office tools are still in use, for instance, though there are no figures available for how many people are using the software. The Ministry pays around 2.5 million euros a year for Windows licenses, for instance, across 50,000 devices for Ministry staff.
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