Post by Nestor Balce
Germany just handed Nextcloud a €67.5 million contract to power school cloud infrastructure across six states.
IONOS will deploy “Nextcloud Workspace” for Berlin, Hamburg, Bremen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Rhineland-Palatinate, and Hesse, with other states able to join.
The four-year deal covers file sharing, a browser-based office suite, calendar, contacts, and email, all hosted on German soil.
Data sovereignty was the primary requirement. The entire infrastructure stays within German data centers, outside the reach of foreign legal jurisdiction.
Germany is systematically replacing proprietary cloud tools in public institutions with open-source alternatives.
Schools today, government offices yesterday, hospitals likely next.
The question for the rest of Europe is whether they are watching, or just watching Germany pull ahead.