Data centres in the EU is not enough to ensure data stays local.
https://www.edps.europa.eu/press-publications/press-news/press-releases/2024...
As far as I know, the EU is pushing hard for alternatives to relying on US companies for all their needs.
For my second comment, yes competition will dry up but not disappear completely. And as soon as they go too far, alternatives will pop up.
Not to mention that they inevitably have huge drawbacks due to their (growing) size: MS365 and Google are responsible for a huge chunk of Spam and they don't even bother to block their outbound Spam, effectively strong-arming others to whitelist their ranges. So assuming they gain even more market share, all that Spam will stay internal to their network. Basically spamming and phishing their own customers to death because of their inadequate policies.
Finally I might add that the only real contender for e-mail is MS. Google is getting dumped as well in the enterprise space because their offer doesn't measure up to MS365.
Cheers,
Scott
On Monday, 18/11/2024 at 15:35 Marc via dovecot wrote:
Not everyone. The EU is pushing hard for data to stay local.
MS/Google
will do what they know best: offer 0 support even to paying customers and jack up the prices once the competition dries up.
You have already MS / Google data centres in the EU. And Apple is using European registered/located ip ranges for this safe browsing, what actually means give to Apple everything you visit.
There will always be alternatives.
Is that not contradictory to your "competition dries up"? If you look at the last 15 years I do not have the impression alternatives kept their market shares.
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