Munich Is Replacing Jira and Confluence, Saving More Than €500,000 a Year
The City of Munich, home to 1.6 million residents, is replacing Jira and Confluence with open-source alternatives. According to Linux-Magazin, the city's Chief Digital Officer and IT chief, Dr. Laura Dornheim, said at Open Source Summit Europe in Prague that the replacement should cut costs by more than half a million euros a year.
Dornheim also made a comparison the city's IT leadership would be better placed to make than any vendor. As the article reports it:
„Ähnlich wie bei Broadcom und VMware habe Atlassian die Preise und Lizenzmodelle Jahr für Jahr immer weiter angehoben.“
In English: as with Broadcom and VMware, Atlassian had raised its prices and licensing terms further, year after year. (Our translation.)
The wording is the magazine's indirect speech, not a verbatim Dornheim quotation. The same passage says the rising costs also push users toward the cloud, with no guarantee that the cloud version meets Munich's data protection requirements. The city is also moving off VMware, which the article says already saves it roughly a million euros a year.
Munich is one buyer with its own history and its own requirements, and nothing here predicts what your organisation should do. What it shows is that a large public body is putting a number on leaving. Atlassian has set its own date for Data Center: licences go read-only on 28 March 2029. See the Data Center deadline and what each date means →
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Last verified: 18 October 2026. Figures and wording checked against the linked article on that date.