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Sharing from my experience of selling SaaS products for school management to schools - 1. School staff is not tech savy. They can not install or manage open so
by zerop 4y ago
Sharing from my experience of selling SaaS products for school management to schools -
1. School staff is not tech savy. They can not install or manage open source easily.
2. They mostly prefer commercial software with paid support. Software is critical to them but not their main business. They lack expertise and willingness to go for Open source software.
- guerrilla 4y ago> They mostly prefer commercial software with paid support. But there's commercial free software with paid support.
- moralestapia 4y agoORLY? Give me an OSS alternative to Google Workspace and I'll move today.
- guerrilla 4y agoI'm no expert but aren't there literally dozens upon dozens of those? Nextcloud, Zimbra, Kolab, etc. for example? [1] There are hundreds of companies that provide nextcloud hosting with support alone [1]... 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_collaborative_software#Open_source_software https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_collaborative_software... 2. https://nextcloud.com/providers/ https://nextcloud.com/providers/
- moralestapia 4y agoNextcloud is quite good and is the only one I'd seriously consider from that list. However, their Standard plan (which is the one that has Office-like apps) is actually more expensive than what I pay now on G, so there's literally no incentive for me to switch.
- guerrilla 4y agoI don't know what you mean by "their." There are hundreds of providers. Some are like $5/month.
- moralestapia 4y agotheir = Nextcloud's.
- guerrilla 4y agoOkay well there are like 30 partners just on the Enterprise landing page alone. You should shop around. Also, I just remembered. The Sonoma County Office of Education is already using Zimbra as its groupware. I wouldn't write it off entirely either.
- alaricus 4y ago> They mostly prefer commercial software with paid support. Most paid support is awful.