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I wonder how with such a big market alternatives have never become popular Is it too much to hope for a Blender-like foundation to run an open source project t
by 7373737373 3y ago
I wonder how with such a big market alternatives have never become popular
Is it too much to hope for a Blender-like foundation to run an open source project that is actually competitive?
- explaininjs 3y agoThe risk of not being compatible with XYZ Word/Excel/Powerpoint feature is too great. Do you really want your employees to not be able to open the client's document because you cheaped out on your productivity suite? Or, conversely, your prospective customer to not be able to open your proposal because of the same? Alternatives did exist, who remembers Lotus Notes, Word Perfect, Open Office, Apple Pages, ..., but to use them today would be akin to deploying a new fangled AI web app as a Flash application.
- Closi 3y agoThe other thing to mention is that the Microsoft products are really pretty good and for most businesses really pretty cheap. You can get a 365 licence (Teams, OneDrive/Sharepoint, Powerpoint, Excel, Word, Outlook & hosted exchange) for $12.50/month. It's only really Google that's competing at this price point (Broadly both their 'standard' packages are approx. the same price). Plus I've not come across a product that's better than being Excel than Excel is (and your analyst and finance teams will hate you if you take Excel away!).
- pid-1 3y agoI don't think that's wild. But IMO the real moat in M365 is that it also bundles Microsoft Entra ID (formerly AAD) licenses and it's strongly integrated to it + SharePoint. This way you can have "basic IT stuff" you expect in a company like company users, groups, shared folders, file permissions, etc...
- gray_-_wolf 3y agoI mean https://www.collaboraoffice.com/collabora-online/ https://www.collaboraoffice.com/collabora-online/ is a thing. Never tried it though.