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This looks to me to be a fairly solved problem, Gitlab can be instances you manage yourself and there is no specific limitations on what works on your self host
by makeitdouble 4y ago
This looks to me to be a fairly solved problem, Gitlab can be instances you manage yourself and there is no specific limitations on what works on your self hosted ones. Microsoft provides server software for Outlook, ActiveDirectory, Sharepoint and the whole org management stack that doesn’t need Microsoft meddling with the data.
Office365 shouldn’t be some wildly different software that can’t live outside of Microsoft’s full grasp.
- Closi 4y agoThe difference is that Outlook, AD & Sharepoint were all designed to be deployed on-premises as an option from the start. Most of 365 appears to be designed and architected to be a multi-tenanted SaaS solution, so I suspect it's not anywhere near as simple as just spinning up your own 365 instance. 365 is probably thousands of microservices behind the scenes which all have their own unique infrastructure requirements and will be actively managed by Microsoft. I suspect running these in your own datacentre would not be an easy feat without complete re-engineering by Microsoft.
- makeitdouble 4y ago> without complete re-engineering by Microsoft We come to the same conclusion: Microsoft chose a different way for Office 365 where it could provide the service to more consumers while also keep way more control, in particular making it easier to justify recurring subscriptions at large. It goes hand in hand with their cloud efforts and pushing for more services, so I understand the motivation. I also kinda wish this trend stopped.
- Closi 4y agoIt's also a different architectural model - i.e. why don't we also have the options of privately hosted versions of Google Docs? Licencing might be one reason, but deployment complexity is probably the bigger reason.