To the product (in German): https://www.ionos.de/office-loesungen/nextcloud-workspace
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This week, “Ionos Nextcloud Workspace” was launched. The two companies describe the platform as a “European alternative to offerings like Microsoft 365” that emphasizes users’ digital sovereignty, as the data remains in Germany. This is intended to “meet the highest demands for data protection and security.” However, this office and collaboration platform, based on open source, also includes an AI assistant.
Just about five months ago, Ionos and Nextcloud announced the development of an M365 alternative announced the development of an M365 alternative, which they presented as a sovereign online workplace with email, office, video conferencing, chat, and AI, based on open-source technology and with full user transparency and control over data and infrastructure. The two companies are emphasizing this again now, with the platform being operated on Ionos’s cloud infrastructure in German data centers.
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Can’t read German so I’ll ask here: Does this look like something that can be or will be self-hostable with Nextcloud, or do they just want you to trade your US corporate serfdom for European corporate serfdom instead? Otherwise I’m just going to stick to Libreoffice, as per usual.
All the main components are already self hostable. But you wouldnt call it Ionos. If the serfdom region doesnt matter to you I get your reaction.
But if businesses want to leave MS and looking for hosters of mail, Nextcloud and Collabora I would think that more European providers for hosting this as a suite are very much welcome.
Especially SME cant afford the expertise to have this tech stack managed by themselves.
So for me sticking with LibreOffice only compares to clients, not the hosting of files etc.
Near at I can tell, this is a pre-configured solution that tries to combine the existing open source solutions into a single “thing”. It’s basically configured for you, and you have to pay more to get full access to the configuration last I checked. It’s the “don’t worry about it” packaging for existing foss solutions, essentially according having to configure, maintain and administer it.
LibreOffice is great, I’m sticking with it for now.
If you self-host, you pay nothing (except for your sever, of course). Nextcloud has always been self-hostable as we know, and you can do that in the future.