The Estonian state is to analyze how viable it would be to reduce dependence on U.S. tech giants such as Microsoft, Google or Amazon for its software.

  • Tayb@lemmy.world
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    25 minutes ago

    I ran the back of the napkin math on this for my org (US local government). Not really possible unless you’re just doing office work. Microsoft is so deeply ingrained in govtech that you can’t even shrink your footprint. That’s not even counting the political and cultural buy-in before you start the lift.

  • axh@lemmy.world
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    31 minutes ago

    Very expensive but possible… in 20 to 50 years… If most of the EU cooperates… So… No.