Austria's Federal Ministry for Economy, Energy and Tourism now has 1,200 employees on the European open-source collaboration platform Nextcloud, leading several other Austrian ministries to also implement Nextcloud. (The Ministry's CISO tells the Register "We can see our input in Nextcloud releases. That is a feeling we never had with Microsoft.")
France's Ministry of Economics and Finance recently completed NUBO (which the Register describes as "an OpenStack-based private cloud initiative designed to handle sensitive data and services.")
In November the International Criminal Court in The Hague announced it was replacing its Microsoft office software with a European alternative.
The German state of Schleswig-Holstein is replacing Microsoft products with open-source alternatives for 30,000 civil servants
The Register reports on challenges facing Europe's pursuit of "digital sovereignty ":Still, The Register provides several examples of government systems that are "taking concrete steps to regain control over their IT."
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