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Caring about your job involves being informed enough to not open your organization up to abuse from the likes of Oracle and Microsoft. That would save your cust

• tsimionescu 1y ago
  While I still stand by my sentiment to a small extent (it's often people who do care that actually oppose management initiatives, and proprietary business software can be superior to OSS alternatives, in certain areas), I was working under the mistaken impression that this was about replacing SAP, a German business solution, not SAS, the American company. I should say that I think the real solution here would be to create an EU wide business software public company (or even EU agency), which would build and maintain business software products for EU governments, preferably open source. There is so much commonality in these areas that it's absurd to not build a common core, and later provide consultancy and support services to member states for deep customization, from experts who understand this common core. This is basically the IBM, Oracle, SAS, SAP, or even Microsoft B2B business model, so not some pie-in-the-sky idea. I do believe that having some unified organization that can provide support and expertise on how others have solved similar problems would be much better than having every municipality and institute in the EU develop its own bespoke OSS-based solution, or, worse, buy from a private company that can just extract a profit from the massive cost savings of deploying substantially similar solutions for hundreds of customers, instead of passing on the cost savings.