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[โ€“] alvvayson@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

There really need to be financial incentives to get companies to switch to European IT solutions.

If just a few European enterprises would purchase these products, there would be enough funding to make them very competitive.

[โ€“] buyeuropean@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Absolutely! That's why we want to promote moving to European solutions.

[โ€“] alvvayson@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 month ago

Yes, we want that. But sadly those incentive structures don't exist to my knowledge.

In my company we are looking at a relatively big niche IT purchase.

The European alternative is quite good, and more innovative than, but not yet on par with, the US alternative.

If 2-3 companies like ours would choose the European competitor, they would have enough references and revenue to be able to compete on a global level.

The irony is that there is a non-European company from a very small country that is also very good and their country is known to really stimulate domestic production.

In the EU, our IT policy really sucks.