[tonetegeatinst]

My town had a budget vote not to long ago.

I actually read the budget proposals and look at the year over year breakdown for certain categories.

The amount my town is paying for microsoft365 and GIS software is substantial. While not an eyewatering amount, and I can understand that certain things need to be licensed....its hard to understand why my local town isn't using a FOSS GIS and just setting up a basic proxmox cluster with HA failover to host the darn thing.

[cen4]

Cuz when things need tweaking or break, there is usually no one to call. FOSS solutions are fine when there is some internal evangelist or team pushing it and are willing to support and maintain things (which over time usually comes out of some labor budget). If there is no one like that internally, even very simple issues can put people off using these systems.

[packetlost]

Because paying people who know how to do that properly are pretty expensive? The average local MSP is paying $25/hr for people who are either early career or flunked out of college or were too incompetent for a corporate job at a larger employer. AD/O365 is pretty easy to get going on a reasonable scale without much