Discover the Microsoft 365 alternative by Nextcloud and IONOS: the Nextcloud Workspace office suite, launching in the course of 2025.

As organizations are looking to reclaim their digital sovereignty, IONOS and Nextcloud are building the fully featured office suite “Nextcloud Workspace”: a powerful Microsoft 365 alternative. As long-standing partners, we have the expertise to enable large companies and organizations with an all-round office suite as European answer to US products. Announced at the Nextcloud Summit earlier this month, this collaboration for digitally sovereign office software that meets the highest data protection requirements will launch in 2025.

To meet the rigorous needs of public institutions and enterprises, Nextcloud Workspace will integrate a full range of collaboration tools, including file storage and sharing, document editing, email, calendaring, video conferencing, chat, and AI-powered productivity features. Of course, this offering will be fully GDPR compliant and securely hosted in Europe.

Organizations can trust Nextcloud to deliver a fully integrated office and collaboration suite, thanks to the company’s experience in creating the world’s leading private cloud platform. IONOS, Europe’s largest cloud and hosting provider, is the ideal partner to ensure full GDPR compliance and protection from US legal exposure. Hosting will be managed exclusively in Germany, at IONOS’ extensive network of data centers.

  • anyhow2503@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    1 小时前

    It’s an alternative, but IONOS honestly fucking sucks as well, so I’m feeling pretty ambivalent about this.

  • Atherel@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    1 小时前

    I’m wondering what will happen to openXchange which ionos is using currently and is afaik also holding parts of. It does exactly the same.

  • null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    51·
    3 小时前

    Kinda sounds awful honestly.

    I do use nextcloud for my small team. It’s the best of the selfhosted file sync platforms.

    That said, it’s obscenely over engineered.

    Who ever wanted a file sync platform that also does calendaring and contacts?

    • Creat@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      3·
      1 小时前

      Who ever wanted a file sync platform that also does calendaring and contacts?

      Most O365 & exchange users? If you just want file sync, this isn’t for you. If you want a collaborative (online) office suite that can also sync files, it is. It’s meant to be able to replace the whole O365 stack, which includes Outlook.

      You can also just not use that part, or any part you don’t need. This is basic NC functionality that has been there for a very long time, so why shouldn’t it be part of the package?

  • recursive_recursion they/them@lemmy.caEnglish
    331·
    7 小时前

    Oh shit

    This will undoubtedly have a major impact against Microsoft and even perhaps Google.

    AI-powered productivity features.

    Everything is pretty sweet except ^the AI productivity features. Hopefully the AI portions are optional opt-ins rather than it being preincluded opt-outs.

      • recursive_recursion they/them@lemmy.caEnglish
        42·
        6 小时前

        I don’t even have to search. I already know it’ll be preinstalled/hidden opt-out based on current tech industry trends :/

        I’d usually say that “I’m hoping for the best, prepared for the worst” but honestly at this point I think I have 0 hope, and I’m only prepared for the worst.

        • cron@feddit.orgEnglish
          17·
          5 小时前

          Thats from the current nextcloud docs:

          We strive to bring Artificial Intelligence features to Nextcloud. This section highlights these features, how they work and where to find them. All of these features are completely optional. If you want to have them on your server, you need install them via separate Nextcloud Apps.

    • IsThisAnAI@lemmy.worldEnglish
      101·
      6 小时前

      No. Anytime who has actually done MSP work understand that most businesses are not purchasing office. They are purchasing a compliance and technology and identity control plane that has just about every add on a business needs.

      Personal office use has always been a nice secondary.

    • Meldrik@lemmy.wtfEnglish
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      4 小时前

      It’s all just part of their addons, so you choose yourself if you want AI. You can even choose to have local AI, if you don’t want to use an external AI, which I believe is ChatGPT.

  • Engywook@lemmy.zipEnglish
    9·
    6 小时前

    It would be nice if they could offer alternatives for individuals with prices comparable to those of Hetzner Storage Share (which is based on NC). Somewhat, I feel every other NC hosting solution is way more expensive per GB.

    • wizzor@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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      5 小时前

      Hey, I had been searching for a reasonably priced NC hosting for a while. I even considered a VPS from Hetzner but somehow didn’t find this. Thanks for pointing it out.

      • Engywook@lemm.eeEnglish
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        4 小时前

        Glad to have helped. The only issue O may have with it is that the web frontend feels a bit slow, but O mainly use it as a file sync service, so it doesn’t bother me too much.

    • Meldrik@lemmy.wtfEnglish
      1·
      4 小时前

      The Hetzner Storage Share lacks a lot of features that Nextcloud IONOS have. Correct me if I’m wrong, but I don’t think Hetzner has an office suite for Nextcloud?

      • Engywook@lemm.eeEnglish
        2·
        4 小时前

        I didn’t check it, tbh. Unluckily, I need almost perfect compatibility with MS Office for my job (shared documents). You’re most likely right.