There is a broad desire within the Netherlands to become less dependent on major American tech companies, specifically because of the Cloud Act. Both Aerdts and Van der Burg stressed that it will take time for the Netherlands to become digitally sovereign.
“it’ll take time” = “Microsoft is paying us to slow it down.”
The German state of Schleswig Holstein has been moving for 2 years, much faster than the Netherlands. Maybe being technology retarded helped them, I dunno.
That’s also one state compared to a country. Even if the size is similar, there’s probably a lot more stuff that needs to be moved on a national level.
This is always the excuse, isn’t it? “No we can’t have that here, it’s completely different”. “No, we can’t have free healthcare here. It’d never work”. “No, we can’t be secure here, that’s not our culture”.
“it’ll take time” = “Microsoft is paying us to slow it down.”
Probably more: we have realised how much of our processes are massively integrated into Microsoft products and might be screwed.
The German state of Schleswig Holstein has been moving for 2 years, much faster than the Netherlands. Maybe being technology retarded helped them, I dunno.
That’s also one state compared to a country. Even if the size is similar, there’s probably a lot more stuff that needs to be moved on a national level.
This is always the excuse, isn’t it? “No we can’t have that here, it’s completely different”. “No, we can’t have free healthcare here. It’d never work”. “No, we can’t be secure here, that’s not our culture”.
It’s not an excuse to not do it but an excuse for why it could take longer.