Look at the Spanish banks: they all use cloud services provided by Amazon, Google, Microsoft and IBM. Secure comms? Probably GlobalProtect or similar.
Trump could turn off the banking system with the flip of a switch (yes, this is just a literary figure).
Until the European companies take seriously the digital sovereignty issue and switch to (or create) European alternatives the US can wreck our economies. Of course, then we could go nuclear and blow up the US treasury bonds. But it is clearly a lose-lose situation.
I fully support the Spanish government (and, keep in mind, I’m a Catalan secessionist!) but the situation has to be threaded carefully. Very carefully.
Do you think those companies would just quetly roll over when president is compromising the second largest market for them?
It would make a lot of rich people very unhappy and next round of political donations would most certainly go to whom ever promises to undo his bullshit.
Ah. Thats unfortunate. yes, I was joking but I do wish them good fortune in dumping US tech products. I’d dump them too if I could. I love the giant golden cahones Spain has shown in standing up to US/Israeli bullying.
That might be so but it would take months or years to get everything switched over. And we are not even talking about how long it will take to retrain all government personel to use the new systems.
Honestly we (,the U.S) don’t have anything worthwhile.
You can find a better version of whatever you are looking for, some place else.
Maybe unfortunately this is not true.
Yet.
Look at the Spanish banks: they all use cloud services provided by Amazon, Google, Microsoft and IBM. Secure comms? Probably GlobalProtect or similar.
Trump could turn off the banking system with the flip of a switch (yes, this is just a literary figure).
Until the European companies take seriously the digital sovereignty issue and switch to (or create) European alternatives the US can wreck our economies. Of course, then we could go nuclear and blow up the US treasury bonds. But it is clearly a lose-lose situation.
I fully support the Spanish government (and, keep in mind, I’m a Catalan secessionist!) but the situation has to be threaded carefully. Very carefully.
Do you think those companies would just quetly roll over when president is compromising the second largest market for them?
It would make a lot of rich people very unhappy and next round of political donations would most certainly go to whom ever promises to undo his bullshit.
I dunno, they will no longer have access to new AI versions of Microsoft Windows, or Teams.
The horror!
All this does is inspire non-US alternatives
!buyeuropean@feddit.uk
As funny as it is to joke about that, I imagine that could collapse the entire Spanish government if they have no backup solution.
Ah. Thats unfortunate. yes, I was joking but I do wish them good fortune in dumping US tech products. I’d dump them too if I could. I love the giant golden cahones Spain has shown in standing up to US/Israeli bullying.
Maybe France will share the software they are working on
That might be so but it would take months or years to get everything switched over. And we are not even talking about how long it will take to retrain all government personel to use the new systems.
We have opposums.