In terms of technology and innovation the German side is likely similar, though I wouldn't go as far as calling it corruption. Larger companies like Deutsche Te

In terms of technology and innovation the German side is likely similar, though I wouldn't go as far as calling it corruption. Larger companies like Deutsche Telekom have been doing local cloud stuff for years now, leading to amusing overviews such as [1]. Having interacted with some of the folks at conferences I'm pretty sure there's a core of people in there somewhat committed to open source which was nice to see. But in terms of innovation none of the projects branded as "German X as a service" over the last decades stood out as particularly innovative or remotely well managed. [1] https://cloud.telekom.de/resource/blob/data/90924/61960634736a807d12b3c99c3d044b87/telekom-cloud-iaas-paas-portfolio.jpg https://cloud.telekom.de/resource/blob/data/90924/6196063473...