Comment on German state replaces Microsoft Exchange and Outlook with open-source email

• Jason2357@lemmy.ca ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Earlier switches were primarily about cost-savings, so Microsoft would just swoop in with discounts and backroom deal$, or offer discounts to anyone considering copy-catting, isolating the early-adopters.

  This case is not about cost but data sovereignty, and it’s also a smaller switch (keeping the Windows OS), so we can have hopes for better success.

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  • Strider@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Monopoly always wins.

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    • PushButton@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Did you know horses were the only way to move around before cars?

      Did you know the US airline industry, and AT&T phone system were a monopoly situation?

      Do you remember when Dropbox, Docker were the only product that filled their niche spot?

      So, no, monopoly does not always win.

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      • Strider@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Of course I remember. There is no too big to fail, too.

        But that does not mean it’s not getting replaced by another one. That’s also a pattern. Or maybe the meta game changes, someone else has money and invests and holds a lot of smaller players. Still.

        For docker it would be Kubernetes and that’s Google.

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    • Jason2357@lemmy.ca ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Well, we have like 3 decades at most of this kind of tech, and really only a couple of generations modern capitalism, so it’s a bit tough to say “always” about anything. It would be more accurate, historically, to say that the monarchy always wins - but especially in that case - past performance does not guarantee future gains.

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      • Strider@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        That’s fair - let’s say since industrialization. But you’re right, it’s few people whatever the current implementation is (monarchy, oligarchy…)

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• Ek-Hou-Van-Braai@piefed.social ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Hopefully with the political climate governments will be more resilient and care about digital sovereignty

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  • Strider@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    As much as I would love that, will never happen.

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    • Ek-Hou-Van-Braai@piefed.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Either way we’ve got to try, there is a slow shift happening in that direction, and the more that shift the easier it becomes

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