5 ms·

Migrating away from Microsoft won't be easy. Despite high licensing costs, Windows, AD and Exchange are still great solutions with millions of people familiar w

by remir 7y ago

Migrating away from Microsoft won't be easy. Despite high licensing costs, Windows, AD and Exchange are still great solutions with millions of people familiar with them, good documentation and support. I agree that only public funding and massive donations would allow the development of true alternative to these products. The building blocks are already there: desktop Linux, openLDAP, FreeRADIUS, LibreOffice, etc. What is needed is lots of refinements, improvements and UI/UX polish to have a package that small shops to Fortune 500 companies could deploy.

giancarlostoro 7y ago
You dont need to get rid of Windows to support Open Source software though. My favorite Open Source tools work no matter what OS I am using be it Mac, Windows or Linux.
lowdose 7y ago
I think everybody should move away from Windows & other software assets. In 2019 it is crazy to make end users responsible for the security of the OS. I have for example never questioned the security of my iPhone. A child that has a chromebook will never understand why you need a virus checker, firewall, that the data really is gone if a ssd breaks or have to install a special program to make a fysical print. The average training time to make this migration from MS Office to Google Docs for employees at Forbes 500 companies is 1 hour. Chrome OS is such an undervalued solution for the end user in a traditional business. In tech we all use GSuite. On stackshare.io a whopping 17.200 companies use G-suite in their tech stack. Microsoft Office 173. You can't get hired if you answer MS Office as your main document driver in an interview. This discussion is not even a thing that gets discussed at a sane technology company. G Suite is awesome and it just works. Kids use Google Docs as a chat app. A traditional document program is a typewriter and a google doc is a laptop with internet connection. G Suite API's create so much automation option plug&play out of the box that 95% of your automation can be arranged with SAAS. Both Zapier & IFTT supply a polished UI, where anybody can connect G Suite with 600 other SAAS API providers. Nobody outside technology has ever started a conversation about these two. https://stackshare.io/stackups/g-suite-vs-microsoft-office-365 https://stackshare.io/stackups/g-suite-vs-microsoft-office-3...
- madez 7y ago
  Going from one proprietary locked-in system to the next doesn't solve the problems. Especially 'The Web'®© services are unsuitable for anything with remotely sensitive documents.
- geegoo 7y ago
  Using stackshare stats for software adoption is somewhat disingenuous. Companies aren't required to disclose what they use, and many don't. You are also more prone to finding similar tool stacks in similar companies (new tech, startup, enterprise, etc...), this isn't even mentioning that the only two software solutions you presented for document management take two very different approaches for monetization, and your post implies that you value the convenience of customer-as-a-product models which we don't have the stats available to back which approach is better. That perspective is also not valid anymore as even Office, and the likes of Libre Office now provide similar conveniences of cloud backed storage and web interfaces.

by remir 7y ago

giancarlostoro 7y ago

You dont need to get rid of Windows to support Open Source software though. My favorite Open Source tools work no matter what OS I am using be it Mac, Windows or Linux.

lowdose 7y ago

I think everybody should move away from Windows & other software assets. In 2019 it is crazy to make end users responsible for the security of the OS. I have for example never questioned the security of my iPhone. A child that has a chromebook will never understand why you need a virus checker, firewall, that the data really is gone if a ssd breaks or have to install a special program to make a fysical print. The average training time to make this migration from MS Office to Google Docs for employees at Forbes 500 companies is 1 hour. Chrome OS is such an undervalued solution for the end user in a traditional business. In tech we all use GSuite. On stackshare.io a whopping 17.200 companies use G-suite in their tech stack. Microsoft Office 173. You can't get hired if you answer MS Office as your main document driver in an interview. This discussion is not even a thing that gets discussed at a sane technology company. G Suite is awesome and it just works. Kids use Google Docs as a chat app. A traditional document program is a typewriter and a google doc is a laptop with internet connection. G Suite API's create so much automation option plug&play out of the box that 95% of your automation can be arranged with SAAS. Both Zapier & IFTT supply a polished UI, where anybody can connect G Suite with 600 other SAAS API providers. Nobody outside technology has ever started a conversation about these two. https://stackshare.io/stackups/g-suite-vs-microsoft-office-365 https://stackshare.io/stackups/g-suite-vs-microsoft-office-3...

madez 7y ago
Going from one proprietary locked-in system to the next doesn't solve the problems. Especially 'The Web'®© services are unsuitable for anything with remotely sensitive documents.
geegoo 7y ago
Using stackshare stats for software adoption is somewhat disingenuous. Companies aren't required to disclose what they use, and many don't. You are also more prone to finding similar tool stacks in similar companies (new tech, startup, enterprise, etc...), this isn't even mentioning that the only two software solutions you presented for document management take two very different approaches for monetization, and your post implies that you value the convenience of customer-as-a-product models which we don't have the stats available to back which approach is better. That perspective is also not valid anymore as even Office, and the likes of Libre Office now provide similar conveniences of cloud backed storage and web interfaces.