Nextcloud, a German productivity and collaboration software vendor, hopes to capitalize on the shift in mood. Working with Ionos, a German data center hosting company, Nextcloud plans to launch an open-source service that it bills as a digitally sovereign competitor to better-known US software-as-a-service (SaaS) products like Microsoft 365 (M365). Nextcloud, which launched in 2016, already develops and sells a suite of collaboration and productivity tools called Nextcloud Hub, which includes apps for document editing, email, and video meetings.