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

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.cafe/post/1679861

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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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[–] [email protected] 45 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 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.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 7 months ago (2 children)

While Hetzner has done a lot to make Nextcloud convenient to use and stable, it's still an overbloated mess of a software with tons of bugs.

Perfect for an EU-wide project!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

aren't they working on rewriting the thing in go?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

That's owncloud, from which Nextcloud was forked.

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