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I literally haven’t heard of those two alternatives. Let’s be honest with ourselves. the feature set granted by Microsoft enterprise products, the single pane o

I literally haven’t heard of those two alternatives. Let’s be honest with ourselves. the feature set granted by Microsoft enterprise products, the single pane of glass for managing users and access controls, and the low ops overhead compared to hosting all that stuff yourself (not to mention integrating it in a compelling way that less technically inclined people can understand, and training people up on how to use it), is likely to be an absolutely ridiculous investment. I doubt you’ll find any company with an IT department with enough resources to roll their own Office 365.

0xedd 3y ago
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wkat4242 3y ago
> I literally haven’t heard of those two alternatives. That's probably because you probably weren't around in the 80s/90s. Netware was a network server tech from before Windows was a thing. All discontinued now so hanging your enterprise off this tech would be a ridiculously bad idea. Seriously, we try to get rid of tech debt, not add it :') GroupWise still gets some token updates but really. I'm super super happy we moved off Lotus Notes which was in the end a vile piece of unstable stinking java. When it started it was pretty good, sure, but the attempts to keep up with the times made it unstable. So no worries, they are not serious replacements for today's productivity apps. They were from a time when life and business happened at much lower speeds. When people could wait a few days for a letter to be mailed in. Try putting a picture in Lotus 1-2-3, connecting to a remote data source, doing a pivot table etc :P Not to mention doing any kind of realtime collaborative work.