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I am always amazed that Europe didn't create the incentives to create an alternative to just technology X where X could be any of the existing top technologies and/or SaaS offerings. I am not arguing that this is simple but it seems like they are in oblivion and some regulations (e.g. data portability) are just a defense against major players instead of a fundamental position.

I would love to start a rant here which could expand into an interesting analysis.

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From afar it seems the EU does not understand how to productize non-trivial (not CRUD) software, at all. They will throw huge grants at incompetents who ship nothing or ship something that only captive users (because of regulation or government co tracts) will use.

It’s partially a chicken-egg problem because they don’t seem to be good at “moving up the value chain” in software either, except in the more developing economies like Poland which get more outsourced international business that allows them upskill. In the developed countries it seems like they are stuck doing in-sourced commodity development of CRUD sites for the local market.

That's because business in the EU, since inception, is mostly about securing the interests of the big European tech players, at the cost of the smaller ones. SAP, Siemens, etc.

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