Open source + webapps. Learn to build your own. Takes awhile but well worth it. I'd conservatively estimate our company are currently saving no less than four

Open source + webapps. Learn to build your own. Takes awhile but well worth it. I'd conservatively estimate our company are currently saving no less than four full time salaries (accountant, purchasing, office admin, sysadmin) and related expenses just on use of webapps. We also use features like auto-translating stuff which makes the multicultural team more cohesive. Not to mention all the RCS/VCS resolved issues with file x version y, file x version y NEW, 'change tracking', oops i deleted it, i forgot to update the version number and all that jazz you can completely sidestep. Totally rife in many companies. My experience is that if you force people to use a decent system it works. Our stack is currently fastmail + github + digital banks + some internal services on three different cloud providers (all have issues). It's not perfect though. What I hate about fastmail: the app and webapp both suck in China and anywhere with slow and spotty connectivity. No image resizing in an app in 2019. The support isn't great. What I hate about github: charge you for 'seats' even if you remove them. Counts someone you hire and fire as a whole month or year if you're not careful due to this fact. Cross-repo/organization view is new and only basic, not good enough. Wacky access control model. Nutjob system integration policy. API breaks and they don't care. Unimpressed about banks: many of them suck. Obtuse and backward onboarding policies, random limits, incapacity to provide i18n-capable interfaces or documentation in the year 2020, horrendous fees, non-transparent fee and tax calculations, inability to access your money because (stupid bureaucratic reason #1234), etc. Unimpressed parts of three different cloud providers: AWS sell you free credits then reneg on the deal and steal your money in 100 ways. Google sell you free credits then reneg on the deal and steal your money in 100 ways. Meanwhile, if you want to pay them and are in China it's impossible either to talk to anyone or do so. Hetzner are truly awesome but often slow from China. But despite the issues, if you're not on open source, you're truly killing yourself. Things would be worse. Really. Except for some design software, media authoring software and games, there's really no excuse. And IMHO the best part of OSX is iTerm2 + brew, anyway.