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Shortly after the height of the Merkel/NSA hacking scandal, when EU member states were most upset that US spying had been disclosed to their electorate (making
by nickdothutton 4y ago
Shortly after the height of the Merkel/NSA hacking scandal, when EU member states were most upset that US spying had been disclosed to their electorate (making EU politicians look weak in front of the voter). The EU kicked off an internal project to try and build a gmail replacement. Their plan was that customer number 1 would be all the educational establishments on the continent. They even got as far as checking out buildings to lease from paper manufacturers, to turn into data centres. Eventually that project went away, but I don't think we’ve seen the last of it yet.
- tmp_anon_22 4y agoThat they tried to build their own data centers is a red flag. Not because its a bad idea, but I think you need to establish product-market fit for a software product before laying down serious hardware.
- waych 4y agoAgreed, but that isn't a good way to spend a lot of taxpayer money.
- pessimizer 4y agoYou don't have to establish product market fit in order to provide services to your own institutions. It's a great idea to piggyback on your own needs to create services that could be expanded to the general public.
- tmp_anon_22 4y agoOnly if allocating resources to in-house data centers does not take away resources from the product. If you're Google sure throw a 100 people at a project that might get pivoted or axed. It won't matter. But a Government IT initiative? They have to be more efficient.
- freedomben 4y agoYou don't need to establish product-market fit when you have the coercive power of the state. after you build the product, you can mandate the fit.
- EUROCARE 4y agoThis thinking is exactly why this continent is failing in terms of technology.
- cyberpunk 4y agoThey maybe had 100m of ‘free’ hardware kicking around after the failure of Microsoft and Telekom’s German cloud offering…