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Re:EU Eyes Ditching Microsoft Azure for France's OVHcloud by Spooky23 on Friday June 20, 2025 @05:05PM (#44332095)
Until recently, the United States was seen as a reliable friend. So the benefits of aggregation from a cost and interoperability perspective outweighed the risk.

Now, the US is going in a direction that makes it increasingly risky. I think we’ll see global companies diversifying outside of the US in addition to governments.

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Re:EU Eyes Ditching Microsoft Azure for France's OVHcloud by Alupis on Friday June 20, 2025 @05:13PM (#44332161)
EU member nations have been attempting to diversify for as long as the EU has existed. Germany famously went down the Linux Workstation path and eventually gave up, instead of applying adequate resources to build a competing product.

There's no reason these things cannot succeed. Apple pulled it off with MacOS (built on BSD). It's just attention span, resources, regulations and the political will.

It's much easier to just buy Microsoft and hope for the best.

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