People mock US politicians for exaggerated claims about the importance of coal, even as coal is a steadily declining part of the energy mix here. But EU politicians are doing the same thing with the IT market. Somehow they assume that the problem of replacing today’s Big Tech platforms is as hard as it would have been back in the days when people were lining up for the latest Microsoft Windows version or Apple iPhone, and US-based firms such as Oracle were the leaders in large-scale server ...
