All the things you listed have much better offerings for free.

Free as in freedom, yes. Free as in beer… Not really. Hosting your own vc infra is not easy and will easily burn through your bandwidth.

The rest is other software because 365 is terrible at everything.

Welcome to the “trap” part. This plus the cost of migrating to something else keeps execs who don’t know better on the same path.

Really not much different than Cisco at this point and why its still there despite the horrifying licensing and terrible ai integrations.