Learning From European Union Countries
In the European Union, enterprise IT is remarkably similar to the United States, many analysts have noted. Both regions have issues in common, such as storage demands, network growth, and mobility challenges. But the EU is unique in a number of areas that could prove to be instructive for its American counterparts. Although a sizable amount of technology and application development is done in the United States, those in the EU can be distinctive in how they adopt software or change how outsourcing is done.Although the United States has certainly had its antitrust wrangles with Microsoft, the recent scrap between the software giant and EU regulators has highlighted the fact that many government entities, as well as many corporations and individual users, are keen to move away from Microsoft’s products. “Many in the EU feel that Microsoft is monopolistic and bullying,” says Yankee Group analyst Laura DiDio. “Because of the antitrust mandates, there could be changes to Microsoft’s future products.” The dark cloud over Microsoft’s actions doesn’t mean the company has a lack of customers in the EU; in fact, DiDio notes, it is just as dominant there as it has here. But the general feeling has prompted many companies to begin exploring open source more aggressively than some of their American counterparts.
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