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Re:EU shoots for €10B ‘industrial cloud’ to rival US by throw0101a on Sunday October 18, 2020 @12:30PM (#24819002)
> The recent COVID-App is a prime example of that. SAP plus German Telekom, neither of which is known for innovation, grab a 60M plus deal to develop a single app.

Meanwhile in Canada Shopify and Blackberry got together and helped the federal Canadian Digital Service in coding up an app, with the code available on GitHub:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID_Alert

* https://www.covidshield.app

* https://github.com/CovidShield

No money exchanged hands AFAICT.

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Re:EU shoots for €10B ‘industrial cloud’ to rival US by throwaway7281 on Sunday October 18, 2020 @02:22PM (#24819963)
Yes, imagine SAP and Telekom would have said: see, we are so profitable and rich beyond our means by extracting value from our economy each and every day, we want to give something back and build this app for free. What kind of ad this would have been.

So they just come across as greedy, corrupt bastard - which probably has the positive side of being very much closer to the truth.

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Re:EU shoots for €10B ‘industrial cloud’ to rival US by durnygbur on Sunday October 18, 2020 @02:30PM (#24820018)
They like money, what you're going to do? BTW Enjoy your 50Mbs copper DSL connection.
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Re:EU shoots for €10B ‘industrial cloud’ to rival US by 908B64B197 on Monday October 19, 2020 @10:28AM (#24826678)
It's mostly a fork of Google's contact tracing app, with some regionalization added.
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