The Political Will

For most workflows, free and open alternatives exist today. Nevertheless, the question keeps coming up as to whether specialized procedures can actually be migrated. In the talk »Open Innovation and Open Source in Schleswig-Holstein«, Sven Thomsen demonstrated what really matters in this context. Above all, the decisive factor is political will. If it exists, the remaining obstacles can be overcome with a very high degree of certainty. ...

November 28, 2025 · 1 min · 67 words

Own digital sovereignty

The European Commission wants to gradually shift its cloud services from Microsoft Azure to European providers like OVH Cloud to bolster its digital sovereignty. Details are in the article, unfortunately behind a paywall. Commission eyes ditching Microsoft Azure for France’s OVHcloud over digital sovereignty fears The text was automatically translated from German into English. The German quotations were also translated in sense. ...

June 19, 2025 · 1 min · 62 words