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Re:Germany, France launch Gaia-X platform in bid for ‘tech s... by namdnay on Friday June 05, 2020 @06:31AM (#23427005)
Meh that's honestly not the number one problem in france. I'd even say it's a competitive advantage. Not everyone is willing to expatriate for salary, you can get really great engineers for half or even a third of what they'd be paid in SV
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Re:Germany, France launch Gaia-X platform in bid for ‘tech s... by ChuckNorris89 on Friday June 05, 2020 @07:25AM (#23427311)
But then why hasn't France been invaded by US companies to hire these great engineers for half of SV money?

I know they have some small offices on campus at top universities where they employ a hand full of PhDs for ML/AI research but that's a drop in the ocean.

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Re:Germany, France launch Gaia-X platform in bid for ‘tech s... by namdnay on Friday June 05, 2020 @09:56AM (#23428562)
You could probably ask the same question of Romania, Russia or Poland. I think it's just a question of the general business friendliness of the place. And there are quite a few American companies in Paris and Sophia-Antipolis
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Re:Germany, France launch Gaia-X platform in bid for ‘tech s... by ChuckNorris89 on Friday June 05, 2020 @10:16AM (#23428799)
Actually, I bet my horse Romania and Poland are hosting more US tech companies than France since they can get more developers per dollar there.

Sophia-Antipolis is mostly semiconductor and hardware and has the weather and property prices of SoCal without the pay.

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Re:Germany, France launch Gaia-X platform in bid for ‘tech s... by dukeyukey on Friday June 05, 2020 @10:12AM (#23428758)
Can't speak for France but London's tech scene is brimming with overseas offices of American companies. Out of my 5 tech jobs, 3 were with American companies, the other 2 being British.
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Re:Germany, France launch Gaia-X platform in bid for ‘tech s... by ChuckNorris89 on Friday June 05, 2020 @10:28AM (#23428946)
It make sense for London to be more attractive to US companies than France due to language and cultural similarities.
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