> While I understand where you’re coming from, it’s important to mention that the German military buys googles software and hardware to self host an air gapped google cloud.
The fact the Google cloud is private for the military doesn't matter. The core issue is that Germany, the richest EU country, is incapable of building its own cloud infra for its defense. It's a laughing stock to posture how the EU is getting rid of US tech when EU's biggest economy is entangling itself even deeper with the US big-tech. Andit's not just Germany.
> but they need a solution _now_
AFAIR Europe has been saying "we need X now" for over 10 years, that I'm more than fatigued by it.
Things don't magic themselves into existence out of thin air just because you need them _NOW_. You need to make smart investments and incentives into the private sector both for investors and the workforce, to get the results the US has.
The problem is EU wants the nice things the US has built, but without putting the long term effort, similar how a guy wants to have the body of Thor but doesn't go to the gym and eats french-fries all day.
> I’ll say that the _only_ way an OSS project would be even considered is if there’s a company backing the project that has extreme amounts of passion, patience and passibility.
And why wasn't a German company like SAP or T-Systems able to do it?
> And why wasn't a German company like SAP or T-Systems able to do it?
Getting to the level of capability and provable mandate compliance of a hyperscaler like GCP takes decades of engineering investment. Renting a chunk of air-gapped GCP infra is much cheaper and faster.
I wish there were European companies committed to this level of engineering investment. I don't know that there are.
>Renting a chunk of air-gapped GCP infra is much cheaper and faster.
That was a rhetorical question, of course they went with Google because it's better and faster than anything in Europe. My point is that Europe will never be able to match Google levels of hyperscalers as long as buying from Google is cheaper and faster.
China's ban on US tech was a blessing in disguise as it brewed a strong domestic industry competitive to the US even if it'll never be on par. EU tech industry is even further behind.
The fact the Google cloud is private for the military doesn't matter. The core issue is that Germany, the richest EU country, is incapable of building its own cloud infra for its defense. It's a laughing stock to posture how the EU is getting rid of US tech when EU's biggest economy is entangling itself even deeper with the US big-tech. Andit's not just Germany.
> but they need a solution _now_
AFAIR Europe has been saying "we need X now" for over 10 years, that I'm more than fatigued by it.
Things don't magic themselves into existence out of thin air just because you need them _NOW_. You need to make smart investments and incentives into the private sector both for investors and the workforce, to get the results the US has.
The problem is EU wants the nice things the US has built, but without putting the long term effort, similar how a guy wants to have the body of Thor but doesn't go to the gym and eats french-fries all day.
> I’ll say that the _only_ way an OSS project would be even considered is if there’s a company backing the project that has extreme amounts of passion, patience and passibility.
And why wasn't a German company like SAP or T-Systems able to do it?