> What I’ve said elsewhere is that what consumers, enterprises, and SMBs all > need is a healthy selection of services from which to choose. The problem > with the entry costs is that you have to be able to leverage a cloud > infrastructure to play these days. That’s not cheap.
The main issue is not really „cheap“. As I see it, as an SMB around the world, you really only have two choices: MS365 or Google. Microsofts licensing makes self-hosting impractical, and Google is more or less the only (non-self-hosted) alternative, from a mass-market perspective. The open source eco-system has failed to produce useful alternatives to Outlook/Exchange(Online) or GSuite. These are the two reasons why the oligopoly has won: inferior solutions and very precisely targetted licensing terms (did you ever try to license a Windows server on a cloud infrastructure to run your own Exchange? ha, good luck with that…) — Matthias _______________________________________________ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org https://list.mailop.org/listinfo/mailop
