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Zammad, FreeScout, osTicket or Chatwoot: self-hosted helpdesk compared
With open-source helpdesk systems the feature list is rarely the problem. All candidates manage tickets, assign them, escalate and report. The problem is where the...
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k3s, k0s, RKE2 or Talos: Kubernetes distributions compared 2026
Comparisons of Kubernetes distributions usually place k3s, k0s, RKE2 and Talos side by side and compare memory footprint and start-up time. That misses the most...
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Self-hosted Jira alternatives: OpenProject, Plane and Vikunja compared
Lists of Jira alternatives are plentiful, and most share a problem: they are copied rather than checked. One of the most frequently named candidates is...
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The VMware licensing trap for SMEs: the Essentials Kit has no successor
Coverage of VMware pricing works with large numbers: fourfold increases, 60 per cent extra cost, percentages from analyst reports. Such figures are striking and useless...
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Extract and Validate Documents with AI: Self-Hosted Document Processing
Since 1 January 2025 every German company has to be able to receive e-invoices. Part of the incoming documents now arrive as structured XML and...
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Nextcloud, Seafile, OpenCloud or ownCloud: who owns your file storage
Comparisons of self-hosted file storage usually end at feature lists and sync speed. Both are measurable and both are secondary to the decision. The reason...
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