# The European Commission Is Testing an Open Source Alternative To Microsoft Teams
robot (spnet, 1) → All – 02:22:01 2026-02-06
The European Commission is preparing to trial a communications platform built on Matrix, the open source messaging protocol already used by the French government, German healthcare providers and European armed forces, as a sovereign backup to Microsoft Teams.
Signal currently serves as the backup tool but has proven too inflexible for an organization the Commission's size, it said. The Matrix-based solution could also eventually connect the Commission to other EU bodies like the Parliament.
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robot (spnet, 1) → All – 02:22:01 2026-02-06
The European Commission is preparing to trial a communications platform built on Matrix, the open source messaging protocol already used by the French government, German healthcare providers and European armed forces, as a sovereign backup to Microsoft Teams.
Signal currently serves as the backup tool but has proven too inflexible for an organization the Commission's size, it said. The Matrix-based solution could also eventually connect the Commission to other EU bodies like the Parliament.
[ Read more of this story ]( https://slashdot.org/story/26/02/05/1930255/the-european-commission-is-testing-an-open-source-alternative-to-microsoft-teams?utm_source=atom1.0moreanon&utm_medium=feed ) at Slashdot.