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they will save 188,000 € on Microsoft license fees per year

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago (13 children)

That is such a crazy amount of money on license fees, especially when you consider that there are mostly free alternatives. I am always choosing foss options as I build my small business.

Right now, I am using onedrive, and Microsoft for my business email. Which I think comes out to like $5 a month.

My understanding is that for reliable email, you need to host with microsoft or google otherwise you are more likely to get sorted into junk mail. If that is incorrect, please let me know.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

I agree with your assessment of e-mail... you either rent under a big provider or you spend countless hours playing whack-a-mole with whitelist-blacklist keepers. The big providers do this too, but they're so big it's not a major slice of their operation.

a crazy amount of money on license fees

License fees pay for development, sales, support, and profit. When you go open source you can skip the sales and profit, but you have to pick up a bit of development and ALL the support, which is considerable during times of big changes, like migration to a new desktop.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Good on them. Those are all solid choices.

I prefer Evolution over Thunderbird, personally. But to be fair, there aren’t any mail clients for Linux that I would say I genuinely like. I’m always open to suggestions, though.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (4 children)

I'm not seeing nextcloud mentioned in the article. If they are moving to nextcloud, I wish them the best. It's great for my personal use, but from my experience it's lacking in what I would expect in a work environment. With a government entity coming to use them, it would be fantastic to see some improvements on them because they're almost there.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'm more surprised that a city in Germany didn't switch to Linux a decade or more ago.

Late to the party is still showing up, good for them.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I think they have already switched and went back at some point?

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

There in that place where closed systems are frowned upon, Install Linux, Problem Solved.

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