PeachPie 🍑Europe's executives need to skill up to solve our total US cloud dependency - Bert Hubert's writings
berthub.eu/articles/posts/ft-on-european-cloud/
Europe is experiencing a crisis of digital autonomy. Our dependence on US big tech has been growing for decades and is now nearly total, at a time when worries about our former ally are no longer theoretical. Might we, like the International Criminal Court in The Hague, find ourselves locked out of our own mailboxes if we say something that is upsetting to the US government?
This post was written in response to an article in the Financial Times.
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CyberEggAlso meanwhile in (a state of) Germany:
poVoqI get where the author comes from, but this isn’t a skill issue. Of course Europe has all the expertise and access to hardware it would need, but we have a political class that ideologically deeply committed to neoliberalism, meaning they will always prefer a public tender with competing private enterprises over a state run and owned utility.
The problem is that the way the US providers have cornered the market, and the overly bureocratic tender procedures, you end up with only a few eligible bids from the three US firms and a few others like T-Systems, that have such a bad track record of actually delivering working solutions that no one interested in something other than a future board position with them will ever choose these companies.
Here is a discussion about a more skeptical statement from the open source community on this:
https://feddit.org/post/24450681
But I think it is not either/either. If, for example, European industry wants to have any control over own critical systems, there is no way around investing in knowledge, skill, and infrastructure like real-time Linux.
Why executives? Executives don’t do shit.
Well they tend to fire ICT specialists and try to replace their on prem work with US cloud services to save money in the short term while paying extra in the long run.
And that is a lot of the problem
This is a wake-up call for executives of European companies. There’s no point in muddying the waters by discussing if executives should even lead this move.
Execs solving societal problems 🤣🤣
People with the necessary knowledge have been leaving European countries for years and they don’t have the slightest incentive to come back and NOW they are like “we need independence, Murica no good anymore”, good fucking luck with that shit without the necessary talent.