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Europe signs off on €1.2B for homegrown cloud project (www.theregister.com)

submitted 11 months ago by Sagan@eslemmy.es to c/europe@feddit.de

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I do wish EC pulls this off. It would great having an actual home-grown competitor to cloud providers. EU does data protection better than anyone else, this would very much be a symbiotic relationship.

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[–] anteaters@feddit.de 33 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (11 children)

19 companies are involved, including SAP and Orange in the Cloud-Edge Capabilities workstream and Deutsche Telecom in the Cloud-Edge Continuum Infrastructure workstream.

Yeah those names really don't inspire confidence. On the other hand, SAP and Telekom did successfully and quickly implement the corona warn app in Germany back in 2020 as FOSS - so this might result in something eventually.

I'd recommend to just throw the €1.2B at Hetzner with Nextcloud and be done with the European solution.

[–] Anekdoteles@feddit.de 12 points 11 months ago (2 children)

God, whenever I hear SAP I think of disaster and cringe. SAP has the sexappeal of satellite telephones.

[–] Send_me_nude_girls@feddit.de 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

But they pay good lobby money.

[–] Anekdoteles@feddit.de 1 points 11 months ago

Exactly. The sucessful lobbying of the German automobile industry is a good analogy why SAP sucks.

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