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In some areas - like US wine and alcohol sales to Canada - and tourism, according to ongoing news reports it is apparently devastating - they are begging Canadi
by jjkaczor 1y ago
In some areas - like US wine and alcohol sales to Canada - and tourism, according to ongoing news reports it is apparently devastating - they are begging Canadians to buy their products again.
In other areas - when the entire Canadian federal (and most provincial and territorial governments - many municipal governments, and of course the entire educational sector due to low-cost licensing) and large-scale industries are completely dependent on Microsoft 365 + Azure platforms (probably AWS as well) - information technology and management usage of US technologies is definitely not being boycotted...
- jmclnx 1y agoIt should be very easy to get away from Microsoft products, but management would need to be tough and put their foot down. Plus once the move succeeds the IT budget will probably have a lot of $ freed for other things. I saw an attempt at a very large company to abandon M/S, it was working but there were a huge amount complaints. Then after a couple months, you can guess what happened. Certain people, usually 1st and 2nd level management, got exemptions, then some "important" finance people. Guess what, the move failed because you ended up with 2 tiers of employees, the revolts started happening. After 1 year, the relented and went back to M/S.
- jjkaczor 1y ago... well, the big problem I would see is not in the "basics" - storing documents on a web-enabled location is solved in the open-source world. However - it is not just that when looking at Microsoft 365 + Azure - it is the inter-connected dependencies between SharePoint Online, Teams, Purview and the desktop OS/Office applications; Metadata/smart-documents, IRM/DLP/Records Management, etc.