To be fair, this train wreck happened in slow motion. It was clear the US was going down in flames 15 years ago. You guys should have been working on this threat since then at least.
The same companies are dragging their feet when it comes to switching, or even just trying, any kind of alternatives. They always wait for someone else to do the leg work.
It’ll cost them :(
Yes, but that’ll be NEXT quarter.
“I fear ransomware but i’m not gonna put more money on it or backups. Only for a short while, after being struck by it.” -All companies.
usa tech today is no different than the blankets they gave the natives way back when. They both come with an unintended surprise.
the twist is that corp’s don’t fear ransomware at all, since they expect to be bailed out by their governments if it hits them /hj
Europe spent decades outsourcing its digital infrastructure to US companies because it was cheap and convenient. Now everyone is shocked to discover that dependence creates leverage. A US tech kill switch doesn’t even need to be used: the possibility alone is reason enough for Europe to build its own stack.
We thought we were allies. We were, until Trump came along and decided that any leverage should be used to his benefit. That works in the short perspective, but will be a disaster in the long run.
Imagine a marriage where instead of working together, you try to exploit the other person at every opportunity.
What’s with that bad website? looks slopcoded with slop images from 2024. I am all for using AI in software development, but it should be used to reach a higher quality of a product, not a lower one.
Also, the contact link opens a LinkedIn profile (i.e. on a US website).
That’s not really sovereign, if you ask me.
We need alternatives that are more open and safe for EVERYONE not just “we made this alternative that we can shut down at will instead of the US”
OPs title is misleading. Makes it look like Europeans shouldn’t switch off US cloud, while the article talks about the risks of the US turning off the US cloud.
You’d have to bring that up with the editor of that particular site.
They used the title:
75% of European businesses fear a US tech kill switch could deal an economic ‘death blow’ – driving a search for sovereign alternatives
Which does not have the same amiguity.
Then they changed it after I posted it. I never edit the headline.
That’s annoying, but at least it validates my complaint XD
It would be a rough month nothing more.
There are several companies that bankrupt or suffered big loss after a planned ERP replacement, I really think it would be more than just a rough month. They are not prepared, and aren’t preparing
I think that says more about those companies management than anything else.
In some countries we’ve seen the most inefficient parts of our economy (public sector) able to do such a change. We’ve also seen the entire continent’s change its energy supply in a year.
I have zero doubts in a dynamic private company’s ability to do such a transition relatively unharmed. In fact they do this regularly, going from aws to azure, from azure to gcp, and so on. It just depends on who’s buttering up the CTO at the moment…
A rough month? I don’t believe most companies can recover that fast when Microsoft switches off outlook, teams and sharepoint.
It does deeper than that. Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure being cut would be a killer. I really doubt StackIT could scale quickly enough to fill a gap created by either of those
Let me assure you that it would be much more than “a rough month”. You have no idea how many factories run on US tech. Most would grind to a halt, with no chance of restarting in any reasonable amount of time.