I get where the author comes from, but this isn’t a skill issue. Of course Europe has all the expertise and access to hardware it would need, but we have a political class that ideologically deeply committed to neoliberalism, meaning they will always prefer a public tender with competing private enterprises over a state run and owned utility.

The problem is that the way the US providers have cornered the market, and the overly bureocratic tender procedures, you end up with only a few eligible bids from the three US firms and a few others like T-Systems, that have such a bad track record of actually delivering working solutions that no one interested in something other than a future board position with them will ever choose these companies.

Meanwhile, in Germany:

What does the national center for cyber security do? Launching a portal to report security incidents… on AWS :M).

Here is a discussion about a more skeptical statement from the open source community on this:

https://feddit.org/post/24450681

But I think it is not either/either. If, for example, European industry wants to have any control over own critical systems, there is no way around investing in knowledge, skill, and infrastructure like real-time Linux.

It’s not like you don’t have European-owned datacenters. Migrate that shit!