alt Hacker NewsThere seems to be a huge business opportunity in Europe right now, to sell support and customization of open source software to government players. Has anyone heard about a European company that’s been successful in this area?
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Matrix has done a bunch of work with the French government in the past. Hopefully they can capitalize on this sentiment.
Just goes to show how many structural problems there are to starting tech companies in Europe.
That seems to be the intention of https://mosa.cloud/
It could be similar to when China kicked out a lot of non-domestic players. They even had a nickname for it. From the link below.
Fengkou fēng kǒu 风口
n. wind tunnel; an area or sector where, for a period of time, all investors want to invest in. Everyone stands a chance to fly when there is favorable wind blowing from behind.
https://www.newconceptmandarin.com/learn-chinese-blog/chines...
I had an occasion to speak to some of the wire.com people a couple years ago. They seemed to be really dedicated to security and privacy.
> to sell support and customization of open source software to government players
Time to start a Drupal consulting firm again.
Yeah, this is a win/win opportunity and could drive more sponsorship of those projects as there'd be more interests invested in seeing them thrive.
If so it will be acquired by a US company
Sure. Nextcloud GmbH seems to be one of the winners. It sells a customized version aimed at government agencies.
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nextcloud