From: clubley@remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP   
      
   On 2025-07-02, gcalliet  wrote:   
   >   
   > Presentation of the best (for VSI) new solution: going to the cloud (VSI   
   > Cloud offer based on Oracle cloud) and final possibility being some   
   > Saas. Not any discussion about this strategy except "the times are   
   > changing, we go with them".   
   >   
      
   Thanks to the Orange One, the times are now changing in the other direction.   
      
   Within a few short months, that idea (of letting a US vendor control access   
   to your data) has become a hard no in an increasing number of people outside   
   of the US.   
      
   A country that was once implicitly trusted, has now become something to   
   be avoided when possible.   
      
   This is an example of the kind of discussions that are now taking place   
   in Europe:   
      
   https://nltimes.nl/2025/05/20/microsofts-icc-email-block-trigger   
   -dutch-concerns-dependence-us-tech   
      
   You can find the same discussions going on across the whole of Europe and   
   Donald Trump is rapidly in danger of doing to the US what Gerald Ratner   
   did to his company.   
      
   A major concern in people wanting to do business with the US is his   
   unpredictable bullying approach to dealing with people, organisations,   
   and countries, with the unpredictable bit been the most important.   
      
   For example, would he suddenly consider the forced sale of ASML to   
   US interests by cutting off access to US resources until they comply ?   
      
   He's just announced that unless Japan very quickly yields to his demands,   
   he's going to impose a 30% to 35% penalty on them. That to me sounds like   
   another version of Danegeld and Kipling was right about what the end result   
   of that is.   
      
   Simon.   
      
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   Simon Clubley, clubley@remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP   
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