Excellent! Returning to software which goal is “how can I make this easier and better for the user”, instead of software made by the philosophy “how can I force the user to buy more payed services and how can we mine more data about the user”.
Hope more will follow as this will probably improve foss and make work life better for everyone :]
Paid subscription services
Teams is just a Trojan horse for SharePoint
Office is a Trojan horse for teams
Windows is a Trojan horse for office.
The MS ecosystem is a hollow wooden horse matryoshka doll
I’m actually almost entirely certain that teams is going to become the new outlook soon
Teams is dogshit. Every time they push an upgrade, it makes my job selling it so much more difficult.
Godspeed Germany, I hope you find a better solution shortly. It can’t be that difficult.
It is not. I am part of a small company (say 25 people) and we use combination of Rocket Chat, Jitsi, and Nextcloud (among other apps). It is literally unlimited licenses, forever, and it will keep working until the heat death of the universe, with no need to update ever until it stops working. Costs 60$ a month for a server to run these, plus Gitlab and tons of other services.
Yes, a fellow Jitsi user in the wild!
How is it treating you?
Apart from having to write a custom script to automatically upload recordings to Peertube, pretty good! Some people have issues connecting from their work network because apparently our domain is not on some allow list for calls. But everything works out of the box, quality is nice, Rocket Chat has an integration. The only thing I am missing is scheduling calls where the host is one predefined user, and everyone has to wait until they connect, and moderator being the first to connect. It is stable, streaming works, UI is partially crude and some features do not work out of the box when not configured separately. But hey, it is free and no big corpo is snooping around!
I just hope that sme of those saved €millions head towards Linux / Libre Office
Me too, Germany
For clarification, this just concerns Schleswig-Holstein, not the entirety of Germany.
I see they will use libreoffice & Linux and it’s all good but what are they replacing Teams with?
Mattermost?
Mattermost is phenomenal, but it doesn’t do audio/video calls. Unless there’s been a massive update that I missed lol.
They do have audio/screenshare and video is in the pipeline but yeah, not yet possible
Jitsi could fill this role, but I dont know if it integrates well with Mattermost
We have been using the audio/video calls feature for no the now. We are currently on version 9.11.7
I dont know what teams offers that networked attached storage running and a self hosted rocket chat service couldn’t do.
I dont believe they were saying teams is irreplaceable.
I would also be interested to know wa govt selects as an alternative.
This post is vying for most reposted article on Lemmy
Have you heard? Tesla stocks are plummetting!!!
It has it all!
Yea cause Lemmy users have a hard on for Linux and anything and everything Microsoft = terrible lmao its truly fun to read these comments at least.
Well. It is objectively true that everything Microsoft is in fact terrible
Yea they are so terrible they are market leaders with trillion dollar cap, absolutely the worse.
The mistake you are making is conflating profitability and quality.
No the mistake yall are making is ignoring if a product was truly bad then EVERYONE would abandon it but they don’t been doing IT for 2 decades windows is going no where.
Microsoft has very, very good salespeople and they let the sunk cost fallacy do the rest. Their products don’t have to be good. They just have to check certain boxes for sales and be recognizable, especially since so many people/businesses are genuinely unaware that alternatives exist, or think that (due to marketing and sunk cost fallacy) those are alternatives are “too complicated” or “too risky.”
MS has been using aggressive anti-competitive practices for decades to secure and hold market share. Making good things that people genuinely enjoy is not part of their business plan.
Ok Jan.
Good, now dump bibis nazi terror state.
Can we stop rehashing this story?
