• varyingExpertise@feddit.org
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    1 day ago

    I’m reading all these comments and I guess no one here works outside of academia or 100% IT companies.

    Reality out there is, that O365 is so deeply integrated with other business related software, that it’s never going away. My company uses an ERP system that has maybe 200 customers worldwide. It is highly specialized for what we do. There is zero financial incentive for the manufacturer to support any other ecosystem. So they won’t.

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      12 hours ago

      The financial incentive would be open and standard document format to ease development and provide reliability

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        9 hours ago

        What they have is already done developing and they are flush in cash. A company that creates an ERP for a specialized industry does not care, unless a huge chunk of their customers demand a change all at once AND are ready to pay for it. I mean, I understand the idealism but this is just one of those “if everybody just…” situations that, imho, holds back open source solutions because their defendants look a bit excentric from established businesses’ points of view.