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[โ€“] lazynooblet@lazysoci.al 3 points 4 months ago (7 children)

I agree they should be sourcing local services, but I don't think there is a service offering that is comparable today. Microsoft's iron grip on businesses is due to multiple services all working togethor, easily administrated, highly customisable. OS, Entra, Intune, Exchange, Defender for Endpoint, Sharepoint, Teams each are on their own are not that great, but all togethor for a single fee with support (key for businesses) is attractive. An open source, or Eurorpean alternative is likely some years away but I read on Lemmy a few weeks ago of several initiatives that look promising.

[โ€“] jonne 2 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Eh, our company doesn't use any of those (and not even out of any kind of ideology, it's just Google/AWS/Apple, which is of course equally bad). If the EU put the right incentives in place, governments and eventually even companies could migrate within a few years.

[โ€“] lazynooblet@lazysoci.al 2 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Okay just take my Microsoft example and template it for Google and AWS, the same point applies.

I'm hoping for a home-grown alternative to be born and adopted.

[โ€“] jonne 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

There's already a ton of alternative email hosting solutions, and things like nextcloud can take the place of Office365. It all exists already.

[โ€“] lazynooblet@lazysoci.al 3 points 4 months ago

Comparing Nextcloud to O365...... well, I think you're missing the point and I'll just leave it there.

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