Tag: Vendor Lock-in
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What Happens When Your MSP Owns Everything
Many small businesses hire an MSP expecting simplicity. Someone else manages the technology, handles updates, and provides support when problems occur. Unfortunately, some MSP relationships create a different problem: the business gradually loses control of its own infrastructure. Over time, the MSP becomes the owner of the critical systems that the business depends on. They…
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Why More Organizations Are Reconsidering Their Dependence on Big Tech
A recent post from Nextcloud highlighted a growing conversation around digital sovereignty and technology dependence. According to a Bitkom report referenced in the article, relatively few organizations have formally analyzed their digital dependencies or taken steps to reduce them. That finding caught my attention because this trend is one of the reasons I started FOSSnix…
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European Government Moves Away From Microsoft Teams
European governments are increasingly replacing proprietary collaboration tools like Microsoft Teams with open-source alternatives built on open standards and infrastructure ownership principles.