CERN Is Replacing Facebook Workplace With a Set of Open-Source Software Alternatives (phoronix.com) 18
CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, is moving away from Facebook Workplace to instead make use of more open-source software packages. Phoronix reports: Facebook Workplace is Facebook's corporate-focused product for internal real-time communication and related communication needs within organizations. CERN had been making use of Facebook Workplace and in addition to data privacy concerns, they were recently confronted with either paying Facebook or losing administrative rights, no more single sign-on access, and Facebook having access to their internal data. But now they have assembled their own set of software packages to fill the void by abandoning Facebook Workplace.
CERN is now using the Mattermost open-source software for online chat and Discourse for further information exchange. CERN's IT department is working on filling the gaps further left by getting rid of Facebook Workplace. [CERN has published a post with more details about the move.] ZDNet points out that this latest announcement "ends a nearly four-year trial with Facebook Workplace and means CERN will remove its presence from the platform on January 31, 2020."
CERN is now using the Mattermost open-source software for online chat and Discourse for further information exchange. CERN's IT department is working on filling the gaps further left by getting rid of Facebook Workplace. [CERN has published a post with more details about the move.] ZDNet points out that this latest announcement "ends a nearly four-year trial with Facebook Workplace and means CERN will remove its presence from the platform on January 31, 2020."
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That or Slack.
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Why do companies think reinventing IRC every 10 years is the latest "must have" tech fad?
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I thought it was supposed to be Teams. Any day now..
Facebook super-collider (Score:5, Funny)
Don't rely on a third-party: Facebook (Score:1)
Running a server on the internet is easy. Why are we relying on these massive companies?
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Running a server on the internet is easy.
It's especially ironic in case of CERN. [wikimedia.org]
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Hm (Score:2)
I thought CERN was chock full of smart people?! Why would they even start using facebook for their "corporate" things?
Wiki, xmpp, sip, irc... whatever, I mean, really?
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replaced with other tools that charge for SSO (Score:3)
mattermost still charge for a version that integrates SSO and since thats their business model I would suspect there is going to be issues...
https://mattermost.com/pricing-feature-comparison/
discourse is a forum software and charge for hosting which is a little better...
https://www.discourse.org/
you would think that facebook would have liked having so many professors etc give up their information... so would have let cern keep it for $1 or some such... unless they stuck huge amounts of data on the platform... strikes me as odd
Facebook WHAT?! (Score:2)
What even marginally semi-competent IT manager would willingly choose a Facebook offering for any official work-related role?
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Mattermost is a great choice! (Score:1)
Initially we started messing with it because we buy Gitlab and it is baked into the omnibus install. But the whole team got quickly hooked on it. Very easy to work with and integrate code into, very simple features, and after just a little bit of time with it we started to get really annoyed at how terrible Slack is (threading is the worst with Slack, search comes in at a close second). We found it much easier to integrate our things into Mattermost than the other products, and Mattermost has excellent Mark