Overview:
The community to discuss buying European goods and services.
Benefits of buying local:
Local investment, job creation, innovation, increased competition, more redundancy.
Related Communities:
Buy Local:
Buying and Selling:
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Boycott:
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Updated to include a disclaimer for Non-European but open source/self-hostable software and replace Pipedrive with efficy as the wrong Imprint was used to identify as European while being American.
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There really need to be financial incentives to get companies to switch to European IT solutions.
If just a few European enterprises would purchase these products, there would be enough funding to make them very competitive.
Absolutely! That's why we want to promote moving to European solutions.
Yes, we want that. But sadly those incentive structures don't exist to my knowledge.
In my company we are looking at a relatively big niche IT purchase.
The European alternative is quite good, and more innovative than, but not yet on par with, the US alternative.
If 2-3 companies like ours would choose the European competitor, they would have enough references and revenue to be able to compete on a global level.
The irony is that there is a non-European company from a very small country that is also very good and their country is known to really stimulate domestic production.
In the EU, our IT policy really sucks.