Published September 24, 2026 · Added September 24, 2026

Nextcloud's Frank Karlitschek on Building Europe's Open Source Answer to Microsoft 365

Computer Weekly profiles Nextcloud founder and CEO Frank Karlitschek, whose open-source collaboration suite runs with roughly 170 employees across 30 countries and is growing 50 to 60 percent a year, with deployments including tens of thousands of German civil-service desktops, the French education ministry's 400,000 staff, Dutch government governance documentation, and Amnesty International Spain. He says a European Commission study on open-source impact named Nextcloud a poster child of a successful open source company, and that demand for European digital sovereignty in public-sector procurement has turned it into a serious alternative to Microsoft 365.

Computer Weekly profiles Nextcloud founder and CEO Frank Karlitschek, whose open-source collaboration suite runs with roughly 170 employees across 30 countries and is growing 50 to 60 percent a year, with deployments including tens of thousands of German civil-service desktops, the French education ministry’s 400,000 staff, Dutch government governance documentation, and Amnesty International Spain. He says a European Commission study on open-source impact named Nextcloud a poster child of a successful open source company, and that demand for European digital sovereignty in public-sector procurement has turned it into a serious alternative to Microsoft 365.

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