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I agree on many points. Wanted to add that in my view using "shitty tools" is not "just" because they are from another German company. In my experience in two D
by thunfischbrot 9y ago
I agree on many points. Wanted to add that in my view using "shitty tools" is not "just" because they are from another German company. In my experience in two DAX companies as well as startups, European and often times German providers especially of SaaS are picked due to not wanting to send customer, employee and company secret data off to jurisdictions which have been shown to be weak on data privacy, as well as the general feeling that there are fewer data leaks especially from U.S.-American companies.
One can certainly debate whether that feeling is based on solid ground, given the larger amount of SaaS companies in the US, and the fact that larger companies may attract more attention.
- shapiro92 9y agoI guess I should clarify, by no means did I want to offend german software engineering. Ofcourse there are great products made from german software company or any companies (cars duh.) Further that, I understand your point but I do not believe it is an issue in new companies. Yes Deutsche telekom might have such issue, but if you dont use Slack you can use HipChat you can use Microsoft Teams, you can use Google hangouts chat. All with different policies, data centers etc. Hell you can even roll your own with open source projects. There is always a way out and hiding behind the law for not adapting is bad for them. BTW I believe DAX companies are more sensitive in terms of data than most companies, lets say soundcloud.
- DelightOne 9y ago> [...] have been shown to be weak on data privacy, [...]. Yeah will be interesting to see who advertises gdpr compliance. https://www.eugdpr.org/the-regulation.html https://www.eugdpr.org/the-regulation.html