France Aiming to Replace Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, etc.

Re:France Aiming to Replace Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Tea... by storystarling on Monday January 26, 2026 @05:46PM (#46772724)

It feels like France is actually leading on the infrastructure side of things right now. With Mistral and Hugging Face both in Paris, the open source AI ecosystem is pretty heavily concentrated there.

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Re:France Aiming to Replace Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Tea... by tensor on Monday January 26, 2026 @06:47PM (#46773417)

And OVH and Scaleway. Also Gandi.

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Re:France Aiming to Replace Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Tea... by microtonal on Tuesday January 27, 2026 @02:34AM (#46776614)

And Murena, one of the best shots at an alternative mobile OS ecosystem in Europe (preferably on Fairphone, which is Dutch).

Though Germany has a lot of light and heavyweights as well, SAP, SUSE, NextCloud, Hetzner, etc.

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Re:France Aiming to Replace Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Tea... by account42 on Tuesday January 27, 2026 @04:14AM (#46777452)

Lol Gandi is a joke now that they have entered the desperately milking any remaining customers that haven't moved off yet phase.

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Re:France Aiming to Replace Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Tea... by Bayart on Tuesday January 27, 2026 @07:40AM (#46779221)

Having worked extensively with OVH and Scaleway, I find it to be a far cry from what American hyperscalers offers. The cloud offering is just too thin and brittle as of now, though I think they will eventually get there because of the CLOUD Act which in the long term might prove to be a gigantic own-goal on the part of the US.

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