IT companies are shifting developer capacity from low-wage countries to geopolitically stable partner states, as operational risks and compliance requirements outweigh cost savings advantages.
German companies increasingly want to make cloud infrastructure more sovereign but are not yet willing to accept significant performance losses – while European alternatives remain unavailable.
Despite its 2026 fork, the European Euro-Office Consortium failed to achieve independence from Russian OnlyOffice code and continued integrating its changes instead of developing its own.
