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European CEOs are starting to publish their intentions to use EU products
Let’s back our own EU Tech industry. At & The Big Fish, we’re exploring a move to European IT solutions, like; • TUXEDO OS (instead of Windows) • ONLYOFFICE (instead of Microsoft Office) • Nextcloud Hub, EU-hosted (instead of Google Drive) Admittedly a bit opportunistic and I know large org...
cross-posted from: https://fedia.io/m/buyeuropean@feddit.uk/t/2074870
Let’s back our own EU Tech industry. At & The Big Fish, we’re exploring a move to European IT solutions, like; • TUXEDO OS (instead of Windows) • ONLYOFFICE (instead of Microsoft Office) • Nextcloud Hub, EU-hosted (instead of Google Drive) Admittedly a bit opportunistic and I know large organizations can’t pivot like this easily. But SMEs and startups can! Using this stack or joining this movement? Drop your thoughts or tips below! #europeantech #cloud #digitalsovereignty #executivesearch #gdpr #buylocal Marloes Pomp Techleap TUXEDO Computers GmbH ONLYOFFICE Nextcloud www.andthebigfish.com
They even want to buy computers from [@tuxedocomputers](https:
Technological platforms are not neutral. If we truly want to resist the digital coup that is currently under way, we need to normalize the use of free, open source solutions.
cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/61526418
Niels and Birthe shared how they built a successful European Open Source business
Attached: 1 image A big thank you to Niels and Birthe Lindenthal from @openproject@fosstodon.org for joining OSSpresso – the Commission's open source community event organised by @EC_OSPO . They shared how they built a successful European #OpenSource business. Their software for project management...
Schleswig-Holstein looks to succeed where Munich failed.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/28006908
Schleswig-Holstein, one of Germany’s 16 states, on Wednesday confirmed plans to move tens of thousands of systems from Microsoft Windows to Linux. The announcement follows previously established plans to migrate the state government off Microsoft Office in favor of open source LibreOffice.
The US government can access many political emails in Europe
Was Europa dagegen tun kann, erklärt der Geheimdienstexperte Bert Hubert
Dutch informatics and intelligence expert Bert Hubert explains why European governments are urgently trying to get away from the American clouds and how they do it fastest. The article is in German. Here are few excerpts translated by me using Firefox Translation.
What is happening in the EU, is that the politicians are finally waking up. They should have done this five years ago.
The Dutch Cybersecurity Center NCSC has conducted an in-depth investigation of Microsoft. In an official evaluation, it has recorded mutatis mutandis: "The USA can at any time access the European data storage. But we don't think they will do that." Of course, that has always been pure wishful thinking. [...] It remains subject to American surveillance laws.
The data transfer agreement will be cancelled soon. Either the EU Commission is pulling back the adequacy decision, which presupposes that the US is a country with an adequate level of data protection [...] or the European Court of Justice will
'March to independence': Christine Lagarde wants EU to ditch Visa, Mastercard for own platform
Speaking on The Pat Kenny Show, Lagarde underscored Europe’s dependence on foreign digital payment infrastructure. “Visa, MasterCard, PayPal and Alipay are all controlled by American or Chinese companies,” she noted, arguing, “We should make sure there is a European offer.”
cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/60461323
The President of the European Central Bank added that she believes in particular that digital payments should be “under our control”.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/41819102
Bloomberg: That Smashing Sound Is Piggy Banks Around the World
Viktor Shvets of Macquarie points out that in 2023, the US exported more than $300 billion in information and communications technology and business services, yielding a net surplus of $120 billion. US royalty and license fees (mostly tech) reached a net surplus of $90 billion, while financial services generated a surplus of $63 billion. “Expanding the scope of the trade war will be inflammatory,” he says, “but it seems the EU (and Canada) might have decided that one can only negotiate with the US from a position of strength, and services are the US’ Achilles heel.”
Customers exchange American tech companies for European alternatives
De aanbieders brengen de toestroom in verband met recente oproepen om minder afhankelijk te zijn van Amerikaanse bedrijven.
The Dutch Broadcasting Foundation reports (in Dutch) that European tech companies are seeing a spike in new customers. They attribute the increase to a growing desire to transition away from US-based tech companies.
It looks like new customers are mostly consumers and small businesses, but hopefully this will build momentum for larger european enterprises to consider switching. Often, a change in consumer sentiment and preferences foretells a shift at the enterprise level.
Companies in the EU are starting to look for ways to ditch Amazon, Google, and Microsoft cloud services amid fears of rising security risks from the US. But cutting ties won’t be easy.
Matt Burgess writing at WIRED:
There are early signs that some European companies and governments are souring on their use of American cloud services provided by the three so-called hyperscalers. Between them, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, and Amazon Web Services (AWS) host vast swathes of the internet and keep thousands of businesses running. However, some organizations appear to be reconsidering their use of these companies’ cloud services—including servers, storage, and databases—citing uncertainties around privacy and data access fears under the Trump administration.
For years, there's been a bubbling concern about the behavior of the big US tech corporations around data privacy and tech lock-in. Now that's boiling over, into a near crisis about digital sovereignty and the imperative to find or build viable alternatives.
This article is a good overview of recent events fueling the movement to reduce or eliminate the utter dependence on big US-based tech companies.
The European Union is working on countermeasures in response to the tariffs that US president Trump has announced. Commission president Ursula von der
