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It probably depends on what they are doing. The problem is with the cloud integration not necessarily with the Microsoft part so if Microsoft wanted to they co
by Stranger43 4y ago
It probably depends on what they are doing.
The problem is with the cloud integration not necessarily with the Microsoft part so if Microsoft wanted to they could sell an version of office to the school with the cloud functionally disabled or changed to point to an on-prem SharePoint installation but this is the smallest part of why school administrators like o365 and google apps.
The problem is that when you look into the email/groupware market and particularly how to manage devices/accounts, something both o365 and google apps(with Chromebooks) offer as a part of the cloud subscription, so now your kind of dealing with implementing authentication, file hosting, email, chat and a whole lot of associated problems based on picking individual solutions for each part of the puzzle.
What the regulators expect will happen is that smaller local companies will start selling integration services to the schools because that's how it worked when IT was introduced to the marketplace. But that market have been decimated over the last few decades so it's not obvious who in the local markets can still do it as the big vendors have been positioning their training offerings and best practice guides towards less locally controlled infrastructure.
- chiefalchemist 4y agoIf governments can collaborate to engineer and build airplanes for example, why can't they do the same for edu software? The economic benefits (of edu) and the number of people directly and indirectly affected has to be on the order of airplanes / airtravel.
- mschuster91 4y ago> If governments can collaborate to engineer and build airplanes for example, why can't they do the same for edu software? Airplanes are a good example on just how utterly bad this can become - we have a lot of issues there. Both the EU and US sued each other over unfair subsidies, both Boeing and Airbus have massive structural issues because they are also expected to distribute pork over election districts... At the core, the problem is anti-competition laws. Governments have enough firepower to simply muscle every free market competition to its knees - the private competitors would simply sue any too effective effort by the government away, and I cannot even claim that this would be without reason.