Dutch tax authorities cancel Microsoft 365 cloud rollout - and turn toward open source - ZDNET

Now if they also directed the license cost savings back toward funding their newly chosen oss projects, we’d be golden.

Imagine. Companies that instead pay X amount pay X*.25 or something. Small cost for the business compared to Microsoft and huge boost in revenue to improve OSS.

B-but a study funded by CCIA Europe (Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Meta…) says EU cloud sovereignty rules would cost Europe up to €233 billion. (Conveniently, it doesn’t count the benefits of not depending on them.)

So considerate of them, worrying about our wallets out of pure altruism.

The general message I hear among enterprise architects is that there’s a price for IT sovereignty.
But that it’s a price worth paying.