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European is not a status. It is a subscription.
ownCloud, DRACOON, Pipedrive, Affinity, MariaDB, Silo AI — recent European software history, read as a list of ownership changes. Why asking where a vendor is headquartered is the wrong question, and what to ask instead.
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AI without US vendors: what actually works in 2026 — and what does not
Changing model provider is one line of code. Changing the compute underneath is not. An honest account of what European AI delivers today.
- 3 min read
Four locks hang on your domain. Who holds the keys?
Registrar, DNS, certificates, mail routing — four separate accounts carrying your entire public presence. In most companies nobody holds all four, and management does not know.
- 4 min read
NIS2 may not apply to you. It applies to your biggest customer.
Germany's implementation act has covered around 29,500 entities since December 2025. It reaches everyone else through the supply chain — as a questionnaire, a contract clause, a condition for the next order.
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Replacing Teams: why one tool is never enough
Looking for a chat means replacing five products at once. Know that beforehand and you are done in eight weeks; miss it and you spend week three explaining why the project is stuck.
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What your website loads before anyone has agreed to anything
Ten minutes in the network tab shows every third-party connection your site opens. It is the cheapest sovereignty gain available — and the only one that requires nobody to be retrained.
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Leaving Microsoft 365: the order most projects get wrong
The technology is the smaller problem. Start with email and you lose the workforce. Start with video meetings and you have proof after four weeks.
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An exit plan that was never executed is a guess
Almost every company has a backup. Almost none has ever tested whether it can keep working without its most important vendor. The rehearsal costs a day and finds things no contract mentions.
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With a CRM, the feature list decides nothing. The export does.
Any vendor can move contacts. Notes, attachments and history are another matter. Open the export only after signing and the decision has already been made for you.
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Leaving OneDrive: move the cold half first
Every file estate splits into two parts that have nothing to do with each other. Move them together and you have two projects at once — and usually finish neither.
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The EU Data Act has applied for a year. Almost nobody uses it.
Since September 2025 cloud providers may not charge exit fees and must help you switch. Most companies do not know this — and their providers are not reminding them.
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Twenty real documents decide your office suite
No comparison review answers whether your templates survive the switch. Your own files do — in half a day.
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Moving email is solved. Deliverability is not.
Migrating mailboxes is craft work with a schedule. The risk comes afterwards: a new sending domain has no reputation, and the first quote lands in your most important customer's spam folder.
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Leaving the hyperscalers: the server is never the problem
Compute and storage are available in Europe at comparable prices. The difference is the catalogue of managed services — and that is exactly what determines your effort.
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Migrations do not fail on technology. They fail on the first exception.
Whoever gets an exception decides the project's fate, no matter how well the cut-over goes technically. What works in practice, and how to recognise an honest abort.
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