cross-posted from: https://lemmy.cafe/post/1679861
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.
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.
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!
aren’t they working on rewriting the thing in go?
That’s owncloud, from which Nextcloud was forked.
God, whenever I hear SAP I think of disaster and cringe. SAP has the sexappeal of satellite telephones.
But they pay good lobby money.
Exactly. The sucessful lobbying of the German automobile industry is a good analogy why SAP sucks.
I’m trying to imagine what you’d have to do to have OVH bill you 1.2 billion.
Accidentially click on “Buy the company”
That would be nice, Hetzner has been providing good service for a while