• Puddinghelmet@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    4 months ago

    https://www.techzine.eu/news/infrastructure/140634/dutch-central-bank-chooses-lidl-for-european-cloud/
    https://www.techzine.eu/news/infrastructure/141644/kpn-launches-sovereign-cloud-with-stackit-in-the-netherlands/

    One of the biggest telecom provider of the Netherlands KPN has started to work with German company Schwarzdigits to create a fully European Cloud as well and they’ll release it today!! Looooooooooooooooooooooooove these initiatives !!! Letsgo Europe 😍 🇪🇺

    • Echo Dot@feddit.ukEnglish
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      4 months ago

      That only works in English. It’s easier not to try and get clever with naming schemes when it needs to cover 12 different languages including one language that’s written right to left.

      Also from an administration standpoint it’s a pain in the arse having a program with a clever name that you have to explain every time somebody tries to search for it in the company portal, and then can’t find it. I already have this issue with some software on our domain called Omny instead of Omni.

  • greybeard@feddit.onlineEnglish
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    4 months ago

    If governments across the world gave a quarter of what they give to Microsoft to open source projects that compete, not only would they get to stop paying Microsoft all that money, they’d have a better product to boot. Add to that the side benefit to people and companies using it, and it’s pretty obvious why Microsoft will do everything in its power (except make a better product for a better price) to prevent that.

    • NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      4 months ago

      I can’t wait for all the Office EU <–> MS365 tools Microsoft make that always make the Office EU software look bad on purpose

  • corsicanguppy@lemmy.caEnglish
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    4 months ago

    Countries outside of the US are sick and tired of paying for what they see as untrustworthy American-dominated software-as-a-service (SaaS).

    SJVn is so hit-and-miss for tech clue, but this resonated.

    Canada is a country outside of the US. Can we get on the notion of independence and digital sovereignty yet, or are we still gonna chain our junk flotilla to this Titanic? And when it goes down, will Millhouse still be complaining about how slow we sink?

  • nexusband@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    4 months ago

    The problem I have with this is, that it won’t be compatible with Marcors and other stuff - Libre Office does work perfectly well for “normal” Office stuff and even basic excel…but anything beyond that is actually needed more than another “basic” Office software.

      • nexusband@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        4 months ago

        I know. The point though is, there are projects that have countless hours of work in them and sometimes even work together with access - not only would you need to invest time to redo those, you’d also have to learn python… Which is most often the argument for a switch to Libre falls on its face. I don’t like it, and I don’t agree with that, but it is what I am confronted with nearly every day over countless different companies…

        • MatSeFi@lemmy.liebeleu.deEnglish
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          4 months ago

          Agree, grip of the lock-in is sitting tight … But as you mentioned, its less the lack of software than it is path dependencies.

    • MithranArkanere@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      4 months ago

      Nothing bad in having some variety.

      Maybe they’ll come up with stuff the other team didn’t and both improve that way.

  • SatyrSack@quokk.auEnglish
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    4 months ago

    This seems to be marketed to businesses and governments, but is it limited to them? Or should anyone be able to set up a public instance?

    • Left as Center@jlai.luEnglish
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      4 months ago

      Euro-Office’s 1.0 release, available June 9 for anyone to download from the project’s public GitHub repositories

      It is a fork of only office, and as for now the aim is to keep it open to all.

      • r3plic@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        4 months ago

        They will have to keep it open for all permanently because OnlyOffice is published under a AGPL v.3 license. Any derivative work needs to have the same license meaning the code needs to stay public. They dont have a choice but I don’t think they would close it down every anyway

      • Ⓜ3️⃣3️⃣ 🌌@piefed.worldEnglish
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        4 months ago

        Yes, the desktop apps are a separate build, but if they stop at online editing ie for nextcloud, it’s a big misunderstanding of what office work stil look like today

        • sunbeam60@feddit.ukEnglish
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          4 months ago

          Yeah I tend to agree but then I’m surprised how many people think GSuite is just fine!

  • rodneylives@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    4 months ago

    Spotted a typo, it refers to “Apache Foundation’s OnlyOffice,” when that product is OpenOffice (as one can discover by following the link). This is different from the OnlyOffice mentioned earlier in the paragraph.

  • pleksi@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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    4 months ago

    I’m using nextcloud+onlyoffice as office 365 replacement so this is simply excellent news! Glad i can get rid of onlyoffice the company.

  • Razen@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    4 months ago

    Now when are we getting: As-Office, Aus-Office, Afri-Office, NAmeri-Office, SAmeri-Office and Ant-Office?

  • Wispy2891@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    4 months ago

    Despite the name, OnlyOffice has no connection with LibreOffice’s ancestor, the Apache Foundation’s OnlyOffice

    It pisses me off when tech journalists don’t bother to double check with a simple web search. Don’t even need to actually search, just type in the search bar “apache foundation o” and it autocompletes in “apache foundation OpenOffice”