Comment by Ringz

Comment by Ringz a day ago

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Ok… that’s odd. Wouldn’t expect anything like this from the Dutch government, since they have a very progressive digital image in Europe.

usrnm a day ago

For the past 15 years being progressive meant moving everything to the (US-owned) cloud

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vladms a day ago

Netherlands is generally very sensitive to price, so if the US cloud (plus the 2 millions for the backup) was cheaper than the alternatives they gladly took it. Also, I would expect Microsoft offered them a big discount...

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