Sovereign Software is a growing trend. The French & German governments have launched a version of Google Docs/Notion, as an alternative to American tech.
https://www.howtogeek.com/docs-alternative-google-docs-notion-france-germany/
Sovereign Software is a growing trend. The French & German governments have launched a version of Google Docs/Notion, as an alternative to American tech.
https://www.howtogeek.com/docs-alternative-google-docs-notion-france-germany/
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Sovereign software seems to be coming more and more to the fore. Lots of people don’t trust Chinese tech, now more and more Europeans & Canadians don’t trust American tech.
Microsoft is widely used across European government departments and civil services. The German state of Schleswig-Holstein just moved from Microsoft Office to LibreOffice across its 30,000 government computers, but that is still small numbers compared to the Euro total.
Docs is part of France’s La Suite numérique (“the digital suite”), which is also working on an open-source video conferencing service called Visio.
Europe and the US have sharply diverging views on AI, so I would expect Sovereign AI to become more prominent too.
[Here’s a direct link to the Euro version of Docs.](https://docs.numerique.gouv.fr/login/)
This is super interesting! The rise of sovereign software really highlights how countries are starting to prioritize data sovereignty and digital independence. It’s fascinating to see governments taking the initiative to create alternatives to big American tech companies. I wonder how these platforms will handle user privacy and data security compared to their counterparts.
Also, it could be a game changer for local businesses and startups, giving them tools that are more aligned with their needs and regulations. I think we might see a ripple effect where other countries follow suit, especially if these platforms gain traction.
It’ll be interesting to keep an eye on how this develops and what features these sovereign tools will offer that set them apart. Full disclosure: I’m the founder of Treendly.com, a SaaS that can help you in this because we track emerging trends like this one.
I can only imagine this sort of thing accelerating. The US has shown itself to be an unreliable partner, so even once close allies are pivoting away from relying on American tech, goods, etc. Once these alternatives are established I doubt there would be any incentive to go back.
I too am looking for alternatives to google. i want out. i’m tired of being the product.
Not that hard thanks to open libre software. Just they need to break the habit with American software. Almost every privative American software has his open source counterpart
The more places that get off the Microsoft/Google train the better. How do they plan to stop these companies from buying political favors though? If enough jump ship, you know the wallets are gonna open.
That’s a smart move and there will be more to come in this area. From datacenter to AI, we need more independence from US. With the help of AI, we can build this much faster and much better on a green field and easily outperform the legacy monsters. Please no second Gaia X …
All these are half measures. It’s time to divide the Internet into local segments. So that they don’t crawl where they shouldn’t.
Hope this brings more work to the IT sector, especially the European one
Can you imagine how out of date and open to security vulnerabilities government run software will get?
China did that
Russia also did (or in process)
It only seems logical that EU being very heavy regulated environment needs some local solutions
With AI more solutions can ve built on demand, but how will privacy, security and investment of new features will work? Running services at high scale is hard… This challenge will certainly push for faster innovation from established saas providers.