Re: Gitlab Migration

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2021 10:25:08 +0200
> From: <tomas@tuxteam.de>
> 
> > The other interesting trend I'm seeing is with many companies now
> > working to minimise email as part of their internal/external workflows.
> > Many companies are finding it a huge resource sink, cause of unnecessary
> > stress/pressure on staff, source of significant security concerns and a
> > real problem for records management.
> 
> I have watched this process around the 2010s in one company. The
> decision was made at top level (they were convinced by some Microsoft 
> salesperson [1] to switch to Office 365 instead of mail, because...
> mail is old). Today, they still use mail, but have outsourced their
> whole communications infrastructure to Microsoft, GDPR be dammed.

Office 365 includes Outlook, so I don't think you interpret that move
correctly.  It is most probably meant to avoid maintaining email
infrastructure in the company itself.