Genuinely asking - is there a Linux alternative to Sharepoint? I couldn't care less if it was lit on metaphorical fire and dumped into the sea, but a lot of orgs using it extensively.
But SharePoint is the linchpin for Microsoft 365. Well technically SharePoint and Exchange. You can’t use any Microsoft 365 products without SharePoint.
OneDrive uses SharePoint. Outlook Groups and Teams Channels create Microsoft 365 Groups. Every Microsoft 365 Group creates a SharePoint site. Microsoft Loop uses Microsoft SharePoint Embedded.
SharePoint is now a “file and document management system suitable for use in any application”.
So, if you want an alternative to SharePoint you would need an alternative to any M365 Product, including Outlook and OneDrive.
Fun Fact: Teams messages are actually stored via Exchange Mailboxes.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/dev/embedded/ov...
It's just conflating needs. Document editing and file storage are two different tasks. It's weird that people want everything integrated. It's not much effort to just drag and drop a file into G-Drive, OneDrive, Dropbox, box.com...
See, there’s the problem. Once you touch anything M365, you’re using SharePoint.
People see SharePoint as a document collaboration tool. But, in reality, it’s real use is as a data storage platform.
But SPO uses Azure Blob Storage to store content rather than SQL databases.
Not really, that's managers' speak. All things SharePoint is just a data swamp.
Not if you want to enable multiple users to be live editing the document at the same time.
Google Docs, on the other hand, works great when you're working together on a document. Too bad they don't have a native client.
Many millions of others seem to do it all the time without issue. I've done it practically every day for many years now and haven't run into sync issues for a long time.
It's not made to sync if two people are trying to open the file off a NAS, it's made for people editing files stored in OneDrive/SharePoint.
But as both examples show, you need to have your document editing and document storage closely working together for multi-user live editing to work. That's something that so far practically only integrated editors/storage platforms offer.
We’re on Microsoft 365 and technically fall into the camp of “uses SharePoint”, but only for “shared network folder” usage which OneDrive seamlessly synchronizes should you dislike the web interface. We don’t actively use any other features of it.
Also worth mentioning that realtime collaboration and automatic versioning of Office documents is seamless for files on SharePoint, even if opened on a desktop on a OneDrive synchronized folder.
Files shared over Teams as well as meeting recordings are also stored on SharePoint.
My point is that SharePoint is used a lot but possibly not in the way one might have assumed.
I don’t know if self hosted SharePoint can do all this.
In 50 % of the time.
What trapped a lot of orgs is making use of the whole PowerPlatform around sharepoint. There's a lot of crusty old LoB apps built with MS's no code tools (PowerAutomate, PowerApps) which run on SharePoint as the delivery platform. Some of these even hook into Excel files stored in the various document libraries, etc. There are entire, large business processes being handled by this platform, and so migrating will require actual dev time, which automatically makes it a non-starter for most, unfortunately. Doubly so when you consider that a lot of these "solutions" were built by non-devs, long since gone from the company and no one knows how deep the tentacles go.
Genuinely asking - is there a Microsoft alternative to eBPF, k8s, nginx?
The answer is NO. Alternative to SharePoint is SharePoint. I would argue such project just not needed in general and therefor there is no 'alternative'.
Of course it's quite a poor replacement but it does exists.
The reason orgs use Sharepoint is they are forced to if they use Microsoft. One drive is sharepoint, teams is sharepoint, sharepoint sites is sharepoint, etc...
I'm sure all those things have better alternatives, but Microsoft shoves them down your throat when you license with them.
I'm not saying that wouldn't be better, but it makes sense why an org would be reluctant. Again, not a fan of Sharepoint myself, but from an org's viewpoint, moving to Linux raises more problems than it solves.
To some extent I think Microsoft is largely in the business of building solutions for problems that don't exist.
Most orgs are probably perfectly fine with a document management system + desktop word application and then a commercial NAS for bulk storage / backups.
You’ve got it backwards. Everything M365 is an amalgamation of Entra, SharePoint, and Exchange.