2 mo. ago • 95%

German Chancellor promotes government cloud from SAP and Microsoft

www.heise.de Chancellor Scholz promotes "sovereign" government cloud from SAP and Microsoft

Following a meeting with SAP, the Chancellor personally campaigned for the company's Delos Cloud. But the federal states rebuffed Scholz.

35 comments

Germany and ping ponging between proprietary and free software every 2 years, name a better duo

91
- It is like... Each time we showed how well you can live with open source, Microsoft comes around with an even bigger coffin of lobby money.
  
  82
  
  The worst thing in that is the amount of money and human time it must take just to migrate everything. People only looking at the bottom line is the bane of IT...
  
  14
  
  It's not just lobbying. The expertise to build and certify what Microsoft did for government cloud is expensive and rare. Open source still needs a third party to provide that level of support, because the documentation is more important than the technical capabilities.
  
  7
  
  coffin
  
  Hehe. I think you mean suitcase but this works, too.
  
  5
Sovereignity by ditching open source software for a proprietary solution made by a US company? How depraved is our dear Bundeskanzler?! The source code of each software update will be made available to the German service provider. Does Scholz really expect someone checking it thoroughly, each time?

67
- Sovereignity by ditching open source software for a proprietary solution made by a US company?
  
  SAP is German.
  
  Does Scholz really expect someone checking it thoroughly, each time?
  
  Let's not pretend that people do this with open source software either. Especially obfuscated mechanisms might not even be seen by the few people who do check it.
  
  9
  
  I'm aware you can intentionally try to make source code unreadable and making open source software effectively proprietary but I do not know of any examples of people doing that. Do you?
  
  6
  
  Probably referring to Microsoft. That's the one of the two with all the cloud experience
  
  6
  
  People notice the oddest things, look at the xz malware incident. All because some guy figured a decompression subroutine in his software was taking a bit longer than expected.
  
  1
Ah, Olaf Scholz, already an infamous corp slut. Was refused.

34
- The idea was rejected? Sane. Lovely to see.
  
  14
- Source?
  
  1
Aaaand that will cost the taxpayers an undisclosed amount of money

20
This bespells doom

10
"Failed idocs and a deleted HUs have caused the German government to cease all function. "

5
𝕯𝖎𝖊𝖘𝖊 𝕶𝖔𝖒𝖒𝖊𝖓𝖙𝖆𝖗𝖘𝖊𝖐𝖙𝖎𝖔𝖓 𝖎𝖘𝖙 𝖓𝖚𝖓 𝕰𝖎𝖌𝖊𝖓𝖙𝖚𝖒 𝖉𝖊𝖗 𝕭𝖚𝖓𝖉𝖊𝖘𝖗𝖊𝖕𝖚𝖇𝖑𝖎𝖐 𝕯𝖊𝖚𝖙𝖘𝖈𝖍𝖑𝖆𝖓𝖉

2
- Isn't it Kommentärsektion? Not a German, so just asking
  
  1
  
  Kommentar ist die Schreibweise aus dem Duden, es ist kein ä enthalten. Auch in Verbindung mit Sektion wird dort kein ä hinzugefügt.
  
  Mir ist generell kein Wort bekannt, bei dem sich ein a zu ä, o zu ö oder u zu ü ändert, wenn es mit einem anderen Wort kombiniert wird.
  
  2
Seems SAP's investment in good arguments pays off.

OTOH Europe and Germany have obvious problems in the cloud sector: They cannot do it on their own and thus are depending on either the USA or other countries who have the know-how.

Not a situation you want to find yourself in, when IT is the backbone which keeps everything running.

Luckily German government's investment in paper, floppy drives and fax machines makes it secure against attacks towards IT infrastructure... ;-)

2

You've viewed 35 comments.