1. School staff is not tech savy. They can not install or manage open source easily.
2. They mostly prefer commercial software with paid support. Software is critical to them but not their main business. They lack expertise and willingness to go for Open source software.
Most paid support is awful.
But there's commercial free software with paid support.
Give me an OSS alternative to Google Workspace and I'll move today.
1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_collaborative_software...
However, their Standard plan (which is the one that has Office-like apps) is actually more expensive than what I pay now on G, so there's literally no incentive for me to switch.
Also, I just remembered. The Sonoma County Office of Education is already using Zimbra as its groupware. I wouldn't write it off entirely either.