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2026-10-09 · StrategyMicrosoft 365 Family: OneDrive shrinks from 6 TB to a shared 2 TBSix times 1 TB becomes two shared terabytes. New customers are hit already, existing ones at renewal from spring 2027. What the numbers say, which date applies, and what the alternatives are.
2026-10-06 · AI NewsMistral Large 4: 1 trillion parameters, weights due end of OctoberMistral opened the Large 4 preview on 6 October 2026: 1 trillion parameters, natively multimodal, weights only at the end of the month. What is documented, what is vendor claim, and why it will not fit on four RTX 5090s.
2026-10-02 · AI NewsMiniMax M3.1 Flash: what the review video shows and what can be verifiedA 21-minute review video sells MiniMax M3.1 Flash Preview as a free model close to Opus. The vendor's own documentation says otherwise in several places.
2026-10-01 · StrategyFrom a transport management system to a number the dispatch desk acceptsThe TMS contains everything, and reports are still the argument. Why querying the production database directly lasts a week, what a data lake of your own changes, and which duty arrives first in Austria.
2026-09-29 · KI-NewsHolo4: open computer-use models, and the best of them is non-commercialOn 28 September 2026 H Company released Holo4, a family of models that drive software through the screen, code, MCP and APIs. The weights are on Hugging Face, every headline number is a provider measurement in a modified harness, and the license of the strongest model rules out commercial use. A table-first overview for IT leads evaluating open models for screen automation.
2026-09-29 · KI-NewsClaude Sonnet 5.5: Anthropic says 30% cheaper per task, independent measurement says 50% dearerAnthropic released Claude Sonnet 5.5 on 28 September 2026: the same price list as Sonnet 5, a million-token context, 70.6 percent on Terminal-Bench 4.0. Artificial Analysis measured an intelligence index of 56 and $7.60 per task at maximum effort, roughly 50 percent above Sonnet 5. The difference sits in the effort dial. And Claude Haiku 5.5: announced, unreleased, without a single number attached.
2026-09-29 · StrategyAnthropic's IPO prospectus: a 42 billion dollar loss on 4.6 billion dollars of revenueThe IPO prospectus Reuters obtained on 28 September 2026 shows a net loss of 42 billion US dollars for 2025 against 4.6 billion in revenue. Nearly a quarter of that revenue came from two customers, and both belong to direct competitors. The company plans 518 billion in spending.
2026-09-26 · StrategyiPhone Duo against Fold 8: seven years of foldables, still no Siri AI2,319 euros, shipping from October 30, eSIM only, and the new Siri stays out of the EU for now. What the first folding iPhone costs in Austria, what the foldable market actually holds, and what Samsung's answer costs today.
2026-09-22 · AI NewsAI Radar Xing4.0-29B-A4B: an open Chinese MoE, 29B heavy, 4B awakeChina Telecom's Xing series succeeds TeleChat: 29 billion parameters, 4 active per token, 256K context, Apache 2.0 and an official GGUF for one consumer GPU. A candidate for our test list, with the supply-chain chapter included.
2026-09-22 · StrategyThe UN Call on AI Safety Rules, and What Reaches the Machine RoomAhead of the UN General Debate, Finland and Norway lead a call for binding AI safety rules: 20-plus signatories, Austria among them. Between the lines sits exactly what customers already ask in their questionnaires.
2026-09-22 · AI NewsWaiting for Qwen4: what Alibaba actually said on 22 SeptemberA graphic with Qwen4-Max, -Flash, -Plus and -27B has been circulating since this morning, allegedly announced in Hangzhou. We measured instead: there is no Qwen4 model, but there is an architecture we already run.
2026-09-18 · StrategieRegistration required by December 31, 2026, the portal arrives October 1NISG 2026 applies from October 1, 2026, with registration due by 31 December. The form arrives on that date as the NIS 2 Services application in the company service portal. The deadline is a responsibility issue, not a form issue.
2026-09-18 · StrategieCRA reporting duty: 24 hours, and a Tyrolean manufacturer counts as the manufacturerSince September 11, 2026, the CRA reporting obligation applies: early warning within 24 hours, full report within 72. If you deliver software to customers as a manufacturer, you hold the manufacturer role. Four clocks, three forms.
2026-09-14 · StrategyGEO: Why AI Search Engines Overlooked UsGEO isn't a buzzword, it's three concrete technical prerequisites: crawler permission, a machine-readable summary, and structured data. We audited our own site against them and found a blind spot we're planning to fix next.
2026-09-13 · StrategyArticle 4 of the AI Act: What the AI-literacy duty actually asks of a companyArticle 4 of the AI Act has required every company to build AI literacy in its workforce since February 2025, with no size threshold. There is no dedicated fine. Here is why that still leaves Austrian operators exposed, and which three sheets make the duty provable.
2026-09-06 · StrategyProxmox as a VMware Alternative: A Sober AssessmentAnyone weighing a move off VMware today rarely asks about price alone. The real question is whether Proxmox can actually carry a company's infrastructure, or whether it stays a well-liked homelab project.
2026-08-31 · AI NewsQwen3.8-Flash-Next: A 125B MoE for the Local Stack?Alibaba has teased Qwen3.8-Flash-Next: 125B main weights plus 51B n-gram embeddings, only 6B active. Open weights are expected within about a day, and the hardware math flips the self-hosting calculation.
2026-08-22 · AI NewsTwo model swaps on one RTX 5090, and why only one happenedMeta's Muse Glimmer 30B and Alibaba's Qwen3.8-27B landed within five days. We tested both, only one reached production. With measurements and three flags that fail silently.
2026-08-21 · AI NewsQwen3.8-Max: 2.4 Trillion Parameters Self-Hosted?Alibaba released Qwen3.8-Max with 2.4 trillion parameters and announced open weights. What that means for self-hosting.
2026-08-20 · KI-NewsDeepSeek V4-Flash: Frontier Performance at One Percent of the CostDeepSeek silently retrained V4-Flash and reached 82.7 points on Terminal Bench, ahead of Claude Fable 5. The price is around one percent.
2026-08-16 · KI-NewsOpenAI GPT-5.6: Speed as a Separate ProductOpenAI cut GPT-5.6 Luna prices by 80% and introduced a Fast Mode for Sol. The new logic: speed costs extra.
2026-08-10 · StrategyOn-Premise vs. Cloud: The Bill Nobody Wants to PayThe cloud debate is usually framed as a matter of faith. It’s a calculation with three variables, and each side omits one cost component.
2026-08-08 · StrategyMicrosoft 365 Backup: Veeam vs. CubeBackup vs. Open SourceMicrosoft doesn't back up your Microsoft 365 data, that's what the terms of service say. Three ways to solve the problem, compared honestly, including the unpleasant reality about the open-source option.
2026-08-07 · AI NewsAI Models Compared in 2026: Which Model for Which TaskTwenty serious models, three price ranges, a dozen use cases. This overview organizes the field by task rather than by provider, and provides links to the individual analyses.
2026-08-06 · AI NewsAnthropic Overtakes OpenAI: What the Numbers Mean for YouA $965 billion valuation, a $47 billion run-rate, 40 percent of enterprise spending on language models. Anthropic has overtaken OpenAI. The more interesting question is what a business should take away from this, and what the success story leaves out.
2026-08-05 · AI NewsThe AI Price Collapse: Frontier Performance at a Fraction of the CostOpenAI cuts GPT-5.6 Luna by 80 percent, DeepSeek V4-Flash beats Claude Fable 5 on Terminal-Bench at one percent of the price, and Qwen3.8-Max lands at Arena rank 4 with 2.4 trillion parameters. In a single week, the cost basis for enterprise AI shifted.
2026-08-04 · StrategyWhat an AI Model Really Costs: Token Price, Token Consumption, Waiting TimePrice per million tokens says almost nothing about what a task costs. Token consumption, output speed and waiting time decide it, and they reverse the ranking. Nine models with measured figures, three worked-through workloads, and the comparison against self-hosting.
2026-08-02 · AI NewsKimi K3: How China's 1.56 TB AI Model Is Dividing Silicon ValleyChina's Kimi K3 is open-weight, powerful, and costs a quarter of US competitors. It's splitting Silicon Valley into two camps, and reigniting the open vs. closed AI debate.
2026-07-31 · AI NewsClaude, 5th Generation: Fable 5, Opus 5, Mythos 5, The Good, the Bad, and the CostAnthropic released three 5th-generation models in the summer of 2026: Fable 5 (June), Mythos 5 (June), and Opus 5 (July). They dominate the LLM arena, but cost up to $50 per MTok of output. An overview of performance, pricing, glitches, and choosing the right model for your stack.
2026-07-23 · AI NewsAI Radar: Kimi K3 vs. Claude Code vs. Codex, the Agent Duel, Honestly SortedMoonshot's Kimi K3, 2.8 trillion parameters, open weights, a million tokens of context, arrives billed as the Claude and Codex killer. But it competes in a different weight class than the headlines suggest. We sort the benchmarks, the harness trick, and what it means for an SME.
2026-07-09 · StrategySovereign AI: Data Sovereignty Is Decided in the Architecture, Not in Marketing“Sovereign AI” has become fashionable, often a marketing label. Real data sovereignty comes from an architecture where the AI's data never leaves the building.
2026-07-07 · StrategyEmail Archiving: GoBD-Compliant, On-Premises, No Lock-inBusiness emails are commercial records; six years of GoBD retention, immutable, searchable, audit-proof. Why we don't outsource that to the cloud, but run Open Archiver on our own hardware instead.
2026-07-05 · AI NewsAI Radar: Qwen 3.6, Alibaba's Open Middle PathAlibaba keeps the smaller Qwen models open while closing the flagship. Why the Apache-licensed 3.6 line is the interesting part for self-hosting, and where the catch is.
2026-07-04 · AI NewsAI Radar: NVIDIA Nemotron 3, Open Down to the Training DataNVIDIA follows up with the Nemotron 3 family: Nano, Super, and Ultra, and releases not just the weights, but the training data, RL environments, and recipes. Why that matters more for self-hosting than a benchmark point.
2026-07-03 · AI NewsAI Radar: Mistral Small 4 & Voxtral, Europe's Open AnswerMistral folds reasoning, multimodality, and coding into one compact Apache model, and enters the voice race with Voxtral. Where Europe's AI lab shines for self-hosting, and where the license slows you down.
2026-07-02 · AI NewsAI Radar: Meta Llama 4, Multimodal, Open, With Fine PrintLlama 4 brings mixture-of-experts and native multimodality to the most widely used open model ecosystem. Why that's strong, and why European companies especially should read the license closely.
2026-07-01 · AI NewsAI Radar: xAI Grok 4.3, Fast, Closed, FrontierGrok gets faster, multimodal, and multi-agent capable, but stays closed and tightly bound to X. Why we watch it without putting it on our self-hosting path.
2026-06-30 · AI NewsAI Radar: Gemini 3.5 Flash & Gemma 4, Fast in the Cloud, Open at HomeGoogle ships two models: the fast, closed Gemini 3.5 Flash for agentic workflows and the open Gemma 4 for self-hosting. The split between cloud speed and data sovereignty, seen from both sides.
2026-06-17 · AI NewsAI Radar: MiniMax M3, Open-Weight with Million-Token ContextMiniMax follows up with M3: open weights, a million-token context, and a new efficient attention. Why this is exciting for context-heavy tasks on self-hosted hardware.
2026-06-16 · AI NewsAI Radar: Kimi K2.7 Code; One Trillion Parameters, Open, and the Catch in the BenchmarksMoonshot AI brings Kimi K2.7 Code: one trillion parameters, open weights, 256K context, and a fraction of the price of Claude Opus. We examine whether the model holds up in daily use and where the catch in the benchmarks lies.
2026-06-15 · AI NewsAI Radar: z.ai GLM 5.2, the Coding Specialist from ChinaZhipu (z.ai) releases GLM 5.2: coding-first, one-million-token context, and open weights under MIT license. What this means for development teams and self-hosting.
2026-06-02 · StrategySecure Communication: Matrix/Element vs. Microsoft TeamsFederated, self-hosted chat protocol or SaaS platform? Matrix and Element offer end-to-end encryption and data sovereignty; Microsoft Teams provides the convenience of an integrated suite. A comparison in depth.
2026-05-28 · AI NewsAI Radar: MiniMax, the underestimated challengerMiniMax is still little-known in the DACH region, but delivers open models with very long context. A look at a provider worth keeping on the radar.
2026-05-19 · StrategyFiles & Collaboration: Nextcloud vs. OpenCloudNextcloud has dominated the self-hosted market for years. OpenCloud re-enters with Go and oCIS. An honest comparison: when the incumbent, when the challenger is the better choice.
2026-05-07 · AI NewsAI Radar: Anthropic's Claude-4 Family (Opus, Sonnet, Haiku)Anthropic's current Claude generation covers three sizes: Opus for heavy lifting, Sonnet for everyday use, Haiku for speed and cost. What this means for the SME.
2026-05-06 · StrategyHelpdesk in-house: Zammad as a Ticket SystemA helpdesk that turns emails into tickets and does more than Outlook rules. Zammad in-house: setup, SLA management, knowledge base, and the difference from SaaS providers.
2026-05-05 · StrategyDocumentation-as-Code: Wiki.js, BookStack or Markdown in Git?Internal documentation usually fails at the hurdle of writing. Markdown in Git reduces this hurdle to zero, and an agent that already writes code documents along the way.
2026-04-10 · AI NewsAI Radar: Google GeminiGoogle's current Gemini generation scores with a huge context window and native multimodality, and is deeply integrated into Google Workspace. Strengths and stumbling blocks.
2026-03-18 · AI NewsAI Radar: GPT-5 from OpenAIOpenAI's current generation leads in reasoning and multimodality, and remains for many the easiest entry point. What companies should consider.
2026-02-21 · AI NewsAI Radar: DeepSeek, From R1 to the V4 SeriesDeepSeek has made waves with open weights and strong reasoning. Why the models are technically interesting, and why the hosting location needs careful scrutiny.
2025-12-18 · StrategyPDF-Workflows: Automatically ingest incoming invoices into ERPIncoming invoices via email in, classified into ERP out, without manual data entry. How Paperless-ngx, n8n and a local LLM turn PDFs into structured data and why it must be on-prem.
2025-12-04 · StrategyTranslogica TMS: On-Prem Transport ManagementTransportation Management Systems are the backbone of logistics. Translogica on-prem gives us control over routes, shipments, and integrations, without cloud dependency in daily operations.
2025-11-20 · StrategyWinline ERP In-House: Why We Don't Move Core Software to the CloudERP systems contain a company's most sensitive data. Winline on-prem on our own SQL server gives us full control, over data, customization, and integrations.
2025-07-01 · StrategySelf-Hosted Business Intelligence with MetabaseDashboards on your own databases, no SQL knowledge needed, no cloud subscription. Metabase brings BI in-house, and makes querying your own data as easy as Googling.
2025-05-21 · StrategySelf-Hosting as a Strategy: Data Sovereignty Instead of Cloud DependenceSelf-hosting is not a hobbyist romance, but an economic and legal decision. When own hardware surpasses the cloud, and when it does not.

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