The whole stack is the issue. E-mail, VM’s, office 365, cloud management, powerBI, copilot, it’s one beautiful ecosystem. There is simply no viable alternative at the moment. It will need to be created.

Of course one can always replace office 365 with libreoffice, but after that it gets more difficult.

I was in a meeting today with a few people where we were discussing what direction we want a part of a European government to go in for tech. Getting rid of USA companies and on-boarding open-source solutions. The main issue, as usual, are the users. They’re so used to the M365 suite they won’t accept anything else.

Apart from the fact that most open-source solutions don’t cover the stack Microsoft delivers, IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS.

We need more guidance from the EU to start producing viable alternatives.

Impressive! I want to do something similar with a locally hosted LLM, the increased context window size will help