Re:Moving away from US cloud services
by rigdzin on Tuesday March 18, 2025 @06:39AM
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"there's a real opportunity here for European companies to step up" and what would be business model? From tiny fraction of people that care about this - wast majority are also the same types, that are known to be unwilling to pay for any service ever even 1 cent.
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I'm not sure that's true - mainly because of some potentially big European customers in government or national infrastructure. They care enough about security and reliability, that they'd very likely choose a European provider over a US one, especially if the existing political climate continues.
Companies don't need anywhere near the profits of Google to cover continuous development and maintenance, so while a European tech giant of the size of Google might not seem that likely, a European office suite certainly is more likely.
Re:Moving away from US cloud services
by mike_hearn on Tuesday March 18, 2025 @07:50AM
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Bert Hubert has previously written about how the entire European telecoms industry with the exception of Britain has outsourced not only equipment but also network operations to Huawei:
https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/5g-elephant-in-the-room/
European national infrastructure providers don't care.