cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/47038761
As organizations are looking to reclaim their digital sovereignty, IONOS and Nextcloud are building the fully featured office suite “Nextcloud Workspace”: a powerful Microsoft 365 alternative. As long-standing partners, we have the expertise to enable large companies and organizations with an all-round office suite as European answer to US products. Announced at the Nextcloud Summit earlier this month, this collaboration for digitally sovereign office software that meets the highest data protection requirements will launch in 2025.
To meet the rigorous needs of public institutions and enterprises, Nextcloud Workspace will integrate a full range of collaboration tools, including file storage and sharing, document editing, email, calendaring, video conferencing, chat, and AI-powered productivity features. Of course, this offering will be fully GDPR compliant and securely hosted in Europe.
Organizations can trust Nextcloud to deliver a fully integrated office and collaboration suite, thanks to the company’s experience in creating the world’s leading private cloud platform. IONOS, Europe’s largest cloud and hosting provider, is the ideal partner to ensure full GDPR compliance and protection from US legal exposure. Hosting will be managed exclusively in Germany, at IONOS’ extensive network of data centers.
I have some good insights into what actual European businesses use as office software. I’ll let you know if I hear about nextcloud.
For now at least, office still reigns supreme.
I have been working with several customers for years and we are using Nextcloud, it works great, but I agree that at least for now it is a niche product.
As long as MS Office just works and there is no real legal problem with using it, there is just no incentive for businesses to take on the enormous costs and risks involved with changing stock a critical piece of infrastructure. MS has an iron hold on that market and it will need a major reason for businesses to even consider switching.
Yes, the ton of elaborate Excel macros alone that keep small and medium business running at all tells me: not going to happen.
I’ll be interested to see how this differs from nextcloud AIO, which is what I currently run for my own stuff.
IONOS are a cloud hosting provider, so isn’t this just Nextcloud (who make the software) and IONOS (who provide hosting) joining up to create an off the shelf replacement for OneDrive, Google Drive, Dropbox, etc?
If you’re self-hosting Nextcloud AIO it doesn’t sound like this is a replacement.
