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Autor Libertus

Ništa lošija ne bi bila europska rješenja, samo treba biti neki početni poticaj i ostaviti dalje slobodno tržište da se europske tvrtke takmiče. Vjerujem da se za 5 godina može potpuno državne institucije odvojiti od Microsofta i na razini alata i na razini OS-a s npr. SUSE ili nešto drugo.

Jednom kada se pokrenu državne institucije i škole, poslovni svijet će pratiti.

Npr. ako kažu da je ODS standardni format za sve institucije + PDF. Onda više se ne moraju drugi alati igrati se mačke i miša s Microsoftom gdje oni pokušavaju dekodirati njihov format, a MS ga kostantno mijenja kako bi ovima zagorčao život. Najednom MS mora pratiti druge i smanjuje se ukupna važnost MS formata za cijelo tržište. I tako na ostalim područjima.

A bumo vidli...nebi bilo loše da se barem Europa uskladi oko Open-Source standarda.

Even before Azure had a global failure this week, Austria's Ministry of Economy had taken a decisive step toward digital sovereignty. The Ministry achieved this status by migrating 1,200 employees to a Nextcloud-based cloud and collaboration platform hosted on Austrian-based infrastructure. This shift away from proprietary, foreign-owned cloud services, such as Microsoft 365, to an open-source, European-based cloud service aligns with a growing trend among European governments and agencies. They want control over sensitive data and to declare their independence from US-based tech providers.

European companies are encouraging this trend. Many of them have joined forces in the newly created non-profit foundation, the EuroStack Initiative. This foundation's goal is " to organize action, not just talk, around the pillars of the initiative: Buy European, Sell European, Fund European." What's the motive behind these moves away from proprietary tech? Well, in Austria's case, Florian Zinnagl, CISO of the Ministry of Economy, Energy, and Tourism (BMWET), explained, "We carry responsibility for a large amount of sensitive data -- from employees, companies, and citizens. As a public institution, we take this responsibility very seriously. That's why we view it critically to rely on cloud solutions from non-European corporations for processing this information."

Austria's move and motivation echo similar efforts in Germany, Denmark, and other EU states and agencies. The organizations include the German state of Schleswig-Holstein, which abandoned Exchange and Outlook for open-source programs. Other agencies that have taken the same path away from Microsoft include the Austrian military, Danish government organizations, and the French city of Lyon. All of these organizations aim to keep data storage and processing within national or European borders to enhance security, comply with privacy laws such as the EU's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), and mitigate risks from potential commercial and foreign government surveillance.