The current German gov't silently issued a statement in December 2023 of IT license cost on federal level for the upcoming years which essentially was 6 billion EUR to Microsoft and Oracle.
1. They throw valuable tax-payer money at companies who do tax evasion.
2. They simply ignore the _fact_ that we've been spied on by our allies.
3. They became over-dependent on US tech which trickled down into all fine-granular processes of private and public institutions.
4. They make it additionally hard for local companies to compete with their regulation frenzies.
Don't know what to say anymore but mocking them and mention what might happen if Trump gets re-elected and discovers this dependency. If US is playing hardball, Germany will be back in stone age.