Mastodawn

@iX_Magazin @lightweight Looks like the EU is on a broad reach to adopt Nextcloud, even via some of the bigger (local) cloud providers.

🇳🇿Mar 3, 2023

@phlogiston they could certainly do worse! @iX_Magazin

@lightweight @iX_Magazin We're using Nextcloud here at work. Though (from the suits' side), there's always the pressure to follow in the foot steps of the Evil Empire (TM) from Redmont. But I'm still holding up to keep it going. Let's see how long I can sustain it.

🇳🇿Mar 3, 2023

@phlogiston I consider executive decision makers and governance people who decide their organisation will become a 'Microsoft Shop', negligent. I think shareholders should sue them (or, for gov'ts, punish them at the next election). Here's why: https://davelane.nz/mshostage @iX_Magazin

New Zealand: dependence on the Microsoft Corporation

Anyone in business should be familiar with an old truth: if you build your business so that it depends on a single supplier's product, that you can't get anywhere else, you don't actually have a busin

Dave Lane

@lightweight @iX_Magazin I fully agree, but shareholders are (at least in our domain) usually 'happy' (blinded) M$ users as well.

On the other hand, Nextcloud has served us very well for 3 years. It's just the 'desire' of those to be more 'compatible'. But I've had so far one loss already with the migration to O365 for mail/calendaring :-(

🇳🇿Mar 3, 2023

@phlogiston bugger. Business people are often... so fundamentally bad at business. Where tech is concerned they're total idiots about risk management. 90+% of them totally out of their depth. @iX_Magazin

@lightweight @iX_Magazin But if they're dictating where the money comes from, they have long leverage.

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@phlogiston yup. The blind leading the blinder. That's why I frequently assert that I think we're in a digital dark age. (https://davelane.nz/darkage)
@iX_Magazin

The current (digital) Dark Age

Over the past few years, it's gradually occurred to me that we're in the midst of a new Dark Age.

Dave Lane