Several public sector organizations in the region are moving to open source digital workplace apps. The German federal state of Schleswig-Holstein is replacing Microsoft software with LibreOffice, Nextcloud, and Open-X-Change, while the city of Lyon in France, will replace Windows and Office with open-source alternatives. And the Austrian Armed Forces will reportedly deploy LibreOffice to 16,000 workstations.
Digital sovereignty is expected to grow as a priority globally, according to Gartner. By 2030, the analyst firm forecasts that more than 75% of all enterprises outside the US will have a digital sovereignty strategy that involves local or regional cloud usage.
Heightened interest in digital sovereignty will result in increased spending on local clouds and open-source applications, but the likes of Amazon, Google, and Microsoft are unlikely to be too troubled. These hyperscalers account for 70% of the IaaS, PaaS, and hosted private cloud market in Europe, according to a report by Synergry Research Group from July. US tech giants also lead in SaaS, with Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace widely used by private and public sector organizations.
This story originally appeared on Computerworld
