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You don’t want to know how much Suse itself spends on MS365 and Windows licenses. :) All email to/from at-suse-dot-com is going through Exchange 365, and the majority of employees use Mac and Windows systems as their primary work systems, that’s true even for certain groups of developers.
There are only two possible email providers in the world (apparently) and Red Hat is using Google, so they couldn’t possibly go for that. :)
In any case, if any Suse exec talks to you about digital sovereignty, be aware they don’t believe their own spiel. (The more traditional Linux dev folks think differently, to some degree. But, as elsewhere, the culture wars over that were largely won by the “business” part of the company.)
It’s the operational reality that even in an org that does a lot to support Open Source, like all orgs, they require a lot of non-technical people to keep the thing going
Makes sense when Suse is just sitting there
You don’t want to know how much Suse itself spends on MS365 and Windows licenses. :) All email to/from at-suse-dot-com is going through Exchange 365, and the majority of employees use Mac and Windows systems as their primary work systems, that’s true even for certain groups of developers.
There are only two possible email providers in the world (apparently) and Red Hat is using Google, so they couldn’t possibly go for that. :)
In any case, if any Suse exec talks to you about digital sovereignty, be aware they don’t believe their own spiel. (The more traditional Linux dev folks think differently, to some degree. But, as elsewhere, the culture wars over that were largely won by the “business” part of the company.)
It’s the operational reality that even in an org that does a lot to support Open Source, like all orgs, they require a lot of non-technical people to keep the thing going
Also, you pay Microsoft to move lots if liability off yourself to Microsoft.
A C-suite level person gets lots of guarantees for all sorts of things from Microsoft that they can blame almost regardless of what goes wrong.
This is Microsofts biggest advantage, they sell a fall guy.