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In the Netherlands someone made a nice (or maybe I should say: depressing) dashboard (still beta) for the US dependency of government agencies, schools, healthcare and companies: zijnwealautonoom.nl (‘are we autonomous yet’). Red button highlights the enormous extent to which most Dutch organisations behave like a digital colony of the US, for example screenshot shows education.
I’m literally working on a project integrating a major European bank into a major US cloud (not my fault).
Maybe we build a new Twitter or Facebook, but we are still heavily using US cloud
IT guy here, since more and more services have moved to be web based services rather than being local programs means that we need less policy management for local machines, this finally loosen the grip that Microsoft has had on the market through Active Directory and 365.
It is still needed, but to a lesser extent, which opens the door for competitors, and new concepts.
As an IT guy who started just before the big cloud shift I miss on-prem hardware, but the cloud has definately opened new concepts that Europe can use to take back our infrastructure from the claws of the US tech sector and bring it home.
I see a future where European governments and companies will host their own cloud services on a combination of their own hardware and a distributed platform.
the hardest part is the dependence on Active Directory, which almost all governments and big companies use it.
yeah, I know there are open source solutions for this, but they are not as easy to manage as Active Directory.
Yeah, though with the shift of running everything in the browser these days I think we can get by with something more like an MDM, it is far easier to manage a secure part of a computer rather than securing the entire computer.
We just need to figure out a trusted way to do it on Linux and BSD so that companies and government organizations can feel confident using the system.
do you have any recommendations for good MDM software?
Yet
Good to see. Europe can reduce its reliance on Windows and start using European software like SUSE Linux, KDE, and Ubuntu. Also the article mentions AI: Europe has its own AI expertise, like Mistral AI, the French company.
Does that mean that decoupling is finally in sight? How long before the legislation is adopted?
Decoupling will be gradual and take many years, unless things escalate and the EU decides to decouple without an alternative in place.
That would however be extremely costly and I think they want to avoid that.
The advantage of a sudden shift is of course that change will happen faster due to necessity. But as I mentioned, at a greatly increased cost.
The question is how long will Europe stand being humiliated by Trump every second day?
How long until the rest of the world joins in?
