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[Opinion] Microsoft says U.S. law takes precedence over Canadian data sovereignty
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Open source software should reduce costs and improve reliability.
Maybe... almost universally, open source software requires more initial configuration work and more long-term oversight to keep operational, so if you're making a statement like this you have account for additional labor costs. Proprietary software is usually sold as an out-of-the-box solution (it usually isn't, but it's usually a lot closer than open source equivalents).
The entry cost for an open source solution might be lower (no licensing fees) but the long-term cost might actually be higher, especially when you start trying to make various pieces of software work together. One of the areas where Microsoft does really well is system administration tools. Active Directory is a full suite of tools that all work together through a unified interface. To replicate AD you would have to patch many different open source projects together, some of which would overlap in functionality and some of which wouldn't quite meet in the middle. As your environment increases in complexity and your sysadmin needs expand, these interoperation problems grow exponentially, which means more labor time and more expertise requirements, less stability and more security holes between the patched-together solutions.
Don't get me wrong, I love open source software, but so far there are no good open source sysadmin solutions that scale well for organizations with thousands of users (e.g. AD for user/ID, domain, and file management + Intune for deployment and provisioning).
It would benefit Canada and most countries to join forces and invest into open source tools together that achieve each of their objectives.
Canada doesn’t have to do it alone.
Certainly, but it doesn't exist yet, and Microsoft has been developing their system for more than two decades. There is a lot of catching up to do to get to feature parity.
Yes, the longer they delay the more expensive it will be.