Ericsson was doing great until it got swallowed up by globalization.
The one-two punch of the US and China shuttered a lot of viable global infotech companies.
linule@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Is there a site listing what exactly European solutions are missing as alternative? It’s so weird that a continent with population, education and wealth of Europe struggles with… software? These are all solved problems and software development becomes easier by the day. Come on.
adespoton@lemmy.ca 3 days ago
linule@lemmy.world 3 days ago
It would be interesting to study those cases, to see exactly what failed. We’re not weak and should be able to survive in „globalization“ context. Anyway, now it’s (more obviously) a matter of security too.
kameecoding@lemmy.world 3 days ago
I would assume this is more a Finland specific problem, AFAIK Slovakia for example has a private cloud for all government IT stuff.
Though that might be due to corruption in this state…
vin@lemmynsfw.com 2 days ago
Europe struggles with agile, in my experience
linule@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Agile is just one possible way to organize things and many developers don’t even like it or think that it improves productivity.
vin@lemmynsfw.com 1 day ago
The company would have to be suitable for it. Force fitting the principles from agile manifesto isn’t going to be useful.
linule@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Why exactly do you think that Europe‘s failure relates to agile? To me it seems more an incentive problem, which would be completely outside of software specific methodology
4am@lemmy.zip 3 days ago
They didn’t used to. England in particular had a leg up during the PC revolution. There are also a lot of really great game studios there in the 90s.
And to be fair there still are some, but they broke al lot of ground in the early days. I don’t know what happened; American enshittification possibly left a bad taste in a lot of folks mouths.
wewbull@feddit.uk 3 days ago
The studios are still there in a lot of cases, but they are part of EA or other giants.
wewbull@feddit.uk 3 days ago
We only struggle with what we produce not being bought up by American giants.
Writing the software isn’t a problem. Having the company survive is.