Comment by einpoklum
3 years ago
> are so tightly coupled with packages like office 365
Are they though? Do you know this for a fact? I mean, sure, MS Office is very popular in government settings, but does this really go beyond the possibility of just replacing it with LibreOffice if they so decided?
Sharing a link to a document that others can edit in the cloud is much more convenient than emailing around a _final_v3(2).docx document.
Well... there's Collabora online:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbQFTkFaYlo
or Box/DropBox/other cloud storage services, which is less convenient than proper collaborative in-pace editing, but you can still get the file at the link, edit it and upload it.
I obviously can’t speak for all, even most, but back in my consulting days I can say the many US federal and state agencies use Azure AD and a litany of AWS services that are core to vital work streams. Enough that having to shut them down would neuter the department.
> Enough that having to shut them down would neuter the department.
You've just identified one very good reason that they shouldn't be dependent on a single, proprietary vendor.
Really, I was surprised to find your original comment on Hacker News, especially with you ironically fronting it with calling other people naive.