Articles on European digital sovereignty, open-source strategy, and the jurisdiction behind every software choice.
Digital Sovereignty
European defence runs on American cloud: nineteen countries on Microsoft alone. Brussels has drafted the law to change that, and the ministries are fighting it. What the Cloud and AI Development Act does, the oath that settled the sovereignty question, the precedent that shows the machinery has already turned, and three scenarios labelled as what they are.
IT Strategy
Year one of paid Windows 10 security updates ends on 13 October 2026, and year two costs twice as much. What ESU costs in the UK, what Cyber Essentials accepts, and the four exits compared, including Linux.
Digital Sovereignty
The compliance case for sovereignty is well rehearsed and slightly dull. The commercial case is newer: a market being created by procurement, and a supplier position that can now be priced.
AI & Ethics
The EU AI Act sets a six-month floor for high-risk AI logs, DORA lands at five years in practice, and the GDPR obliges you to delete. Which rule governs depends on who you are and what is inside the log.
Cyber Security
A certificate is a statement that a management system exists, not evidence that a model works. The task of a board is to tell the difference, and then to ask for the second thing.
IT Strategy
Concentration is a continuity question rather than a procurement one: whether the business can still operate when one supplier changes its price, its terms, its model version or its mind.
Digital Sovereignty
A European AI layer does not mean a European ChatGPT. It means a European organisation with a sensitive workload has real options: a model it can run, compute it can contract for under European law, terms it can exit. Credible means buyable, and four requirements follow from that test.
Digital Sovereignty
Residency answers where data sits. It does not answer who can reach it.
Digital Sovereignty
What Washington and Beijing have already done with the power to cut off, read and steer the AI Europe depends on.
Digital Sovereignty
ERP is the deepest vendor lock-in most organisations carry. Odoo, a Belgian open-source suite, offers a genuinely different model: modular, queryable and deployed in weeks. What a Beyond ERP migration looks like in practice, limitations included.
Leadership
A board can delegate the building of an AI system. It cannot delegate the duty to know what that system decides, on whose data, under whose law, and who answers when it is wrong.
Digital Sovereignty
You can move your systems to a European cloud and still hand the keys to the old landlord. The identity provider is the one system every other system trusts, and the enterprise market for it belongs almost entirely to two American companies. Microsoft made the point better than any critic could: its most sovereign product cannot use its own cloud identity service.
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