Re:Buy European Made. Support European Values
by torlok on Thursday March 06, 2025 @06:28AM
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There's a size point at which rolling your own infrastructure is worth it, and may get government support. Help grow companies you want to see succeed.
Re:Buy European Made. Support European Values
by ssssvd on Thursday March 06, 2025 @06:35AM
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"Don't rent from Amazon! Buy from Dell, HP, SuperMicro, Cisco, Juniper, Intel and Nvidia instead."
It's all American below AWS/GCP abstractions as well.
Re:Buy European Made. Support European Values
by AlecSchueler on Thursday March 06, 2025 @08:32AM
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That's the point, we need to start moving away from that and this is how we make a start.
Re:Buy European Made. Support European Values
by OvbiousError on Thursday March 06, 2025 @06:34AM
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Absence of a (high-level services) cloud provider is a big problem. I hope that changes at some point, but probably impossible to start something like that without measures in place to make the existing offering less attractive.
Re:Buy European Made. Support European Values
by ssssvd on Thursday March 06, 2025 @06:43AM
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Imagine GDPR, but for infra — that's the stuff of nightmares.
"EU Committee on Kubernetes."
By the way, that's exactly what China and Russia did — no AWS, GCP, or Azure there.
Re:Buy European Made. Support European Values
by GreenWatermelon on Thursday March 06, 2025 @06:38AM
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Who says it's not all linux and Hetzner/OVH? No need to assume the worsr based on no data.
Re:Buy European Made. Support European Values
by meijer on Thursday March 06, 2025 @06:29AM
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It's not all or nothing.
Re:Buy European Made. Support European Values
by BoingBoomTschak on Thursday March 06, 2025 @06:27AM
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You could say that ASML (Netherlands) and TSMC (Taiwan) are the final turtles though.
How many are hosted on AWS, Google or Microsoft? How many are using Windows or macOS? How many use nvidia, etc.