• @mvuviA
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    23 years ago

    One would think that with all the talk around ‘sovereignty’ the governments would see the dependency matrix they are fixing themselves in. They also do not come cheap – an email account on Xchange may cost over 10Dollars a month. It is puzzling how a low-income country would opt for a costly, dependence-inducing platform yet their technical people advise on fairly priced options that give them more autonomy.

    • GadgeteerZAOP
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      23 years ago

      So true! It boggles the mind but don’t under estimate the PR and marketing machine by some of the big companies. There is good reason they bypass government’s own tech people. I’ve seen a case where a big company flew out negotitaors especially to deal with senior officials. The back room tech sys admin just does not get to see his/her own senior officials. And yes, the costs for the cloud based subsciptions is way more ove rthe long term, and worse, extracting yourself and your data is not easy at all when supposedly a contract period is supposed to end. You can have your data back but good luck on using it in any meaningful way…