• Nafeon@pawb.social
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    4 months ago

    It is like… Each time we showed how well you can live with open source, Microsoft comes around with an even bigger coffin of lobby money.

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      4 months ago

      The worst thing in that is the amount of money and human time it must take just to migrate everything. People only looking at the bottom line is the bane of IT…

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      4 months ago

      It’s not just lobbying. The expertise to build and certify what Microsoft did for government cloud is expensive and rare. Open source still needs a third party to provide that level of support, because the documentation is more important than the technical capabilities.

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          4 months ago

          Tech corpo shills hate the idea of government going open source. Think of all that investment into your competition that is known to be the better approach.

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        4 months ago

        This is a valid mention and I agree, but I also have to say that there are companies like the nextcloud corp itself who do offer that level of expertise and are German based and would use the money to improve nextcloud, which is open source, whereas we don’t know how much of the money that Microsoft takes goes into the open source project.

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        4 months ago

        Microsoft doesn’t have a monopoly on Software. At least, not any more. Open Source is the way to go, and there are plenty of Open Source consulting firms out there. Red Hat, Nextcloud, Redpill Linpro, etc.

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          4 months ago

          They have a near monopoly on compliance though which is the draw of government cloud. It’s a totally different product from their commercial offerings. The software portion isn’t really a factor, it’s the paperwork and audit results.