Re:German city wants to ditch Microsoft for Linux
by brnt on Wednesday June 03, 2020 @04:56PM
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Here in NL its very lucrative, healthcare software and consulting. All they care about is externalising responsibility. As long as they can blame another party, their ass is covered and therefore their work done.
It's soul crushing.
Re:German city wants to ditch Microsoft for Linux
by warkdarrior on Wednesday June 03, 2020 @03:07PM
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Lots of cloud services have in-country presence, so that they actually guarantee the local (in-country) storage of data. It is similar to how IBM offers/used to offer managed services -- they have the hardware and the software, it may be on prem or in a local data center, and they manage the application offering for you.
Re:German city wants to ditch Microsoft for Linux
by corty on Wednesday June 03, 2020 @03:13PM
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In-country presence of american companies has been proven to be nonviable because american courts can order data to be handed over from the foreign daughters to american agencies https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/CLOUD_Act
I know from an insider that one of the largest areas of Sweden, at least one, has been moving to office365. While conscious people inside the very same organisation have been trying to prevent the move of data into the hands of a foreign company.
And at the same time large telcos with a lot of government clients have also moved to office365 but with warnings to their employees that they should avoid storing certain client files in this cloud solution until the legal situation is resolved. WTF
So basically these consultancy companies have a legal requirement not to store client data in a foreign cloud if that client is part of the Swedish government. But at the same time healthcare is moving to the cloud.
I wish I knew more about the legal situation, all I can give you are the observations and musings of a geek.