# Open Source on its own is no alternative to Big Tech

DevFeed: [Open Source on its own is no alternative to Big Tech](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/open-source-on-its-own-is-no-alternative-to-big-tech-36506.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/open-source-by-itself-is-no-alternative-for-big-tech/>)

Published: 2024-10-26T12:15:00Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [Bert Hubert's writings](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/bert-hubert-s-writings.md>)

Topics: [Open Source](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/open-source.md>), [Microsoft](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/microsoft.md>), [Nextcloud](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/nextcloud.md>), [migration](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/migration.md>)

Tags: [autonomy](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/autonomy.md>), [cloud](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cloud.md>), [microsoft](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/microsoft.md>), [migration](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/migration.md>), [open-source](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/open-source.md>), [software](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/software.md>)

## AI overview

The article argues that Open Source software alone is not a direct alternative to Big Tech services. It attributes the difference to the professional support, training, infrastructure, and managed services that accompany major technology providers, using a Nextcloud experiment in the European Parliament as an example.

## Source excerpt

Now that we're increasingly concerned about the dominance of 'big tech', Open Source is often mentioned as an alternative, especially since our governments are carrying out a Total Migration to Microsoft. This is the English version of this Dutch piece. In Dutch we say you can't compare apples and pears, but that's not entirely true. Both are so-called handfruit, and one is a bit harder, the other a bit softer.