There has been a certain amount of scaremongering among those watching Europe’s burgeoning “Digital Sovereignty” movement. Yes, there will be pitfalls and mistakes made along the way. The move is being made with great reluctance, with grudging acceptance of the fact that the USA is no longer an entirely reliable partner either politically or economically. Here <https://www.computerworld.com/article/4187951/how-frances-education-ministry-built-an-open-source-file-share-platform-for-400k-users.html> is one remarkable success story: an open-source file-sharing platform that is currently serving around 400,000 users, offering them up to 100GB of storage per user. And look at the budget: a limit of €10 per user per year. And just three staff members handling it all. In terms of comparison to USA-based proprietary offerings, Benoît Piédallu, national project manager for digital services at the French Ministry of National Education, said “They are very happy to use it. They don’t make a comparison to Google Drive or OneDrive…, it’s just working.” However, The Collabora-based office application suite has been less well-received, in part because its interface is unfamiliar to many users. “When they want to edit documents, work on a [spreadsheet] or something like that, they want it to be exactly like they are used to — if they have Microsoft Office, they want [it] to work the same, to have the same options,” he said. I guess this is where Euro-Office comes in ...