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Re: Open-source alternatives to popular B2B tools

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Post by input_sh »

kilroy123 wrote: post #35
input_sh wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not enough resources? I work as a sysadmin in an org that highly prefers self-hosting (paid or non-paid, doesn't really matter). I spend a fairly considerable amount of time on updating services, updating plugins for our services, making sure backups work, integrating our SSO, testing updates on non-live environments etc etc. You can't just set it and forget it. When you approach a dozen or so self-hosted projects, y…

Interesting, I've always worked at places that prefer to pay someone else for the trouble and use a ton of third-party tools for all the things. In the end, do you think the self-hosting route is worth all the trouble and costs?

It's certainly cheaper to have a couple of sysadmins, but then again, it depends on how valuable is the stuff you're dealing with. Small web agency? Probably not. Supporting dozens of journalists (like my org)? Absolutely.

There are also trade-offs. A few sysadmins can't host emails against hostile (sometimes state-sponsored) parties like Google can. We can't roll out a better messaging service than Signal. We could roll out our own VPN, but if the goal is getting lost in the noise, you want a popular VPN, not routing journalists' traffic through unique IPs.

On the other hand, just Nextcloud and GitLab (two fairly common services) require about 10h/month if you don't want to be major versions behind or miss security patches in minor versions.

Re: Open-source alternatives to popular B2B tools

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Post by deeptichopra »

soumyadeb wrote: post #34

A correction. RudderStack is an open source project/product and is an alternative to Segment. The website lists other marketing analytics products as alternative to RudderStack. They are related but not exactly same. (Founder of RudderStack here)

Yikes, my bad. Have listed RudderStack as open-source now. :)

Re: Open-source alternatives to popular B2B tools

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Post by deeptichopra »

zajkowskimarcin wrote: post #33

Great list, thanks for sharing and gathering! As people said, form to add suggestions would be great. E.g. we're using Umbraco CMS ( https://umbraco.com/products/umbraco-cms/ ) for most of our content managed enterprise solutions and would be awesome to see it listed there. Many many more in my head as well, so might help curating it and growing it for the good of us all looking for OSS alternatives!

Added Umbraco. Let me know if you have other suggestions!

Re: Open-source alternatives to popular B2B tools

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Post by koilke »

deeptichopra wrote: post #38
pratio wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Haha yes, I didn't notice that firefox and chromium aren't mentioned at all

Yep, sorry. Made more sense to remove the browser category, so I've done that now.

How about Bitwarden for password manager?

Re: Open-source alternatives to popular B2B tools

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Post by KronisLV »

Some additional ideas:

  - Kanban - Kanboard ( https://github.com/kanboard/kanboard )
  - Analytics - Matomo ( https://github.com/matomo-org/matomo )
  - Content Management System - Grav ( https://github.com/getgrav/grav )
  - Knowledge Base - BookStack ( https://github.com/BookStackApp/BookStack ) 
  - Browser - Firefox ( https://github.com/mozilla )
  - Image Manipulation ( https://github.com/GNOME/gimp )
  - Observability Platform - Zabbix ( https://github.com/zabbix/zabbix )
  - Password manager - KeePassX ( https://github.com/keepassx/keepassx )
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