Vendor to speak unto vendor with first results expected in 2027

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.

  • anteaters@feddit.deEnglish
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    1 year ago

    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.

    • lichtmetzger@feddit.deEnglish
      181·
      1 year ago

      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!

    • Anekdoteles@feddit.deEnglish
      13·
      1 year ago

      God, whenever I hear SAP I think of disaster and cringe. SAP has the sexappeal of satellite telephones.

    • Sagan@eslemmy.esOPEnglish
      10·
      1 year ago

      €1.2B at Hetzner with Nextcloud and be done with the European solution.

      That would be nice, Hetzner has been providing good service for a while

    • gencha@feddit.deEnglish
      31·
      1 year ago

      They wasted millions on the development of an app that is a trivial joke and they still needed several cycles to reach stability. Hetzner+Nextcloud is a cute toy, but has nothing to do with actual cloud infrastructure. 1B is a joke investment when your competitors are Amazon and Microsoft. This money is going to be wasted entirely and there will be zero useful products coming out of it. Exactly like the COVID app

      • taladar@feddit.deEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        The Hetzner Cloud Server API would actually make a pretty good start for what you call “actual cloud infrastructure”, certainly closer to that than NextCloud.