NS8 is finally released, but still a lot is missing. Mostly Third party modules, like Zabbix from @mrmarkuz, Dolibarr and DokuWiki from @stephdl which still needs testing for Migration…
IT is, as such, a tool for most of humanity. For me and others, it may be a hobby. For the majority, it is merely a tool. A Tool which serves no purpose just costs money and wastes resources, even if it’s just space in your toolkit.
Some things in IT are highly overvalued, at least in my opinion. KI is one, Advertising is another. Worse are “Crypto”, and these have nothing to do with encryption, as the name may imply.
I have three doctors practices as clients. These are typical, down to earth, small companies, doing tangible work with patients. Swiss law doesn’t allow any patients data put in a cloud, it has to be in Switzerland. As none of the major players offer cloud in Switzerland, this restricts use to smaller, local outfits, with much less options or hardware choices. All this induces higher costs, and absolutely NO benefit what so ever for my clients…
None of my clients want to use any cloud, some even act allergically to any “cloud” suggestions.
This may be “typical swiss”, but things are, as they are.
I personally do not like services which are billed regularly, especially if these can be avoided.
And AWS, Azure, Digital Ocean are all such regular billers…
I find it really strange that these companies you mention have the funds for enriching such multi-mega companies, but do not have local services. On top of it, most of these are in countries with really crappy Internet connections (And otherwise sub-par infrastructure)…
I do know you love cloud a lot, maybe too much, but that’s not a decision for me to make or judge. Open Source does allow this.
Cloud had an organized push while the world locked down for Covid, but Home Office is being rolled back in so much places and large corporations…
Cloud companies like AWS, Azure, Digital ocean all treat their clients as a number in a clients database, a potential source for milking.
Hybrid cloud is, at the moment for me:
All in house, public Web page hosted externally. External Mail only a maybe. Nothing else.
You have your opinion, I have mine, let’s leave it at that.
My 2 cents
Andy