A pilot phase with 38 ministry employees kicked off last year to trial Collabora’s suite with Office documents. However, this trial was terminated when elections took place earlier this year. A spokesperson confirmed that the experiment had concluded, and would not resume again. They also confirmed that no evaluation benchmarking Collabora’s performance against Microsoft Office had taken place either.

Huh. Politically/Lobby motivated? I hope there’ll be a follow-up.

It doesn’t sound like the formatting issues mentioned were the reason they abandoned this; that bit reads like filler to me because the actual news is so unsatisfying. Im/Exporting from/to MS formats not working 100% is also nothing new. And other institutions succesfully made the switch, so this is clearly workable.