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Problem is large organizations IT departments. Instead of using tested and quality components they only consider two options: Roll own thing (LiMux) use crappy
by Chyzwar 9y ago
Problem is large organizations IT departments. Instead of using tested and quality components they only consider two options: Roll own thing (LiMux) use crappy vendor (MS).
It would be massively cheaper to sponsor 5 people to work on Libre Office, and 5 people to support the distribution of choice (Ubuntu, SUSE). The remaining effort should be put into aggressive upgrade policy. They would now be running on Ubuntu 16.04 and LibreOffice and OwnCloud installation that would cost them peanuts.
Instead, they are running on LiMux where the last release took place in 2011. Half of the documents are still probably in MS format and nothing work on modern hardware.
What they will do now is to embrace Windows10. But in few years MS will push everything to the cloud and they will be left hanging with expensive licenses per user. Because of privacy and data cannot move to the US and they will be forced to use legacy Office versions. Additionally, because Windows is expensive to support they will get squeezed by Indian outsourcing centers.