welp
sadly, this is how most of those migrations end, in my experience
i remember some german federal state doing that several times -- announcing a switch away from microsoft and a pilot program to adopt linux, only to then backtrack on that later
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imo the idea of "let's have our institution switch from MS Office to LibreOffice/OnlyOffice/Collabora/etc." sets up a task that's more likely to fail than not
the discussion should start with document formats, the fact that MS Office provides two -- one a proprietary binary mess that others have to reverse engineer and another a partially standardized also-mess that still brings in a lot of MS-specific logic, and that ODF is a more reliable standard instead (which MSO also happens to support)
and a workplace that uses ODF is much more prepared for a hypothetical nightmare scenario of "we're locked out from microsoft (presumably by order of the u.s. government)" than one that switched programs, but keeps using MS's document formats (which presumably now risk loading badly for MSO users or users of other open-source office suites)
@rnd it's insane
i feel like both the best and the worst way such a thing could end is having processes permanently in place that accomodate optional use of the switched-to platform #lang_en