Call for Evidence: Share your Proxmox experience on European Open Digital Ecosystems initiative (deadline: 3 February 2026)

[t.lamprecht]

Dear Proxmox-Community, we are asking for your support.

The European Commission has opened a Call for Evidence on the initiative European Open Digital Ecosystems, an initiative that will support EU ambitions to secure technological sovereignty. Anyone can submit feedback, and the consultation is open until 3 February 2026.

This does take some time, but it is an incredibly important contribution to our open source projects and to the broader open source ecosystem in Europe.

Here is the official page with the submission form:
https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/bette...ves/16213-European-Open-Digital-Ecosystems_en

If you are using Proxmox Virtual Environment, Proxmox Backup Server, Proxmox Datacenter Manager, or Proxmox Mail Gateway in production, it would really help Proxmox’s visibility if you submit a short statement. Even a concise submission can make a difference.

Thanks in advance to anyone who can share their experience before the deadline.

 

[bbgeek17]

Considering that virtualization is one of the most critical components of modern cloud infrastructure, it’s hard to think of a more deserving European company in this space than Proxmox Server Solutions GmbH.

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[ness1602]

Even though I am in Europe not in EU, this is a great initiative. And I agree on Proxmox influence on virt services.

 

[petruzzo]

We have reposted the info in our Company channels and in community groups

 

[amilakothalawala]

I’ve just submitted my evidence for this initiative.

As a Senior System Engineer with 12 years in IT and 8 years specialized in Proxmox, I highlighted how open-ource solutions are critical for breaking vendor lock-in and ensuring data sovereignty within the EU.

I strongly encourage other community members to share their production experiences as well. It’s a great chance to show the real-world impact of Proxmox!

 

[spirit]

Was talking with a Guy at fosdem working for the europeean commission. They seem to have migrated recently from vmware......to nutanix.......

 

[Johannes S]

Was talking with a Guy at fosdem working for the europeean commission. They seem to have migrated recently from vmware......to nutanix.......

The EU commission also was a driving force for treatys with US that their data protection laws are fitting for european regulations and laws which allows continueing to use non-EU child Services like Office365 after customer protection activist Max Schrems successfully went to European courts against using Office365 and Co.
The reason is that it's obviouvsly a human right never to migrate away from your beloved Word, Excel, Powerpoint and Outlook/Exhange Workflows. Germanys federal government signed a large contract with MS for the same reason. Basically Germans goverment workloads are "guaranteed" to only be run on European data Centers in 99% of times and that's good enough. Basically the Office workers as well as their bosses agree that they don't want to learn another Office-Suite and need to stay "compatible".
This won't change without commitment from the top.
This is shown by the government of the federal state of Schleswig-Holstein who migrated away from MS Office to opensource alternatives. Despite complaints from ground staff ( like police men, citicen office clerks etc ) about the change, the state government continued. If decision makers, the goverment heads and lawmakers ( like on federal and European Level) are not this commited, all this talk about "Digital souverignity" will stay just that: Talk

 

[christophe]

Deadline is a bit short! Is it a hard deadline?

Will try to drop in note later in the evening.

Christophe.

 

[t.lamprecht]

A big thanks to all of you that submitted feedback, as the submission period is now over I'll unstick this post again.

 

[alma21]

Was talking with a Guy at fosdem working for the europeean commission. They seem to have migrated recently from vmware......to nutanix.......

aha .... this is then the so called european digital sovereignty ...... from one US hegemon to another + 0.00 cost savings for EU tax payers ..... the right way to go forward - not worth the (digital) paper it is written (on MS 365 Word)

 

[alexskysilk]

aha .... this is then the so called european digital sovereignty ...... from one US hegemon to another + 0.00 cost savings for EU tax payers ..... the right way to go forward - not worth the (digital) paper it is written (on MS 365 Word)

This is the expected reaction for anyone who hasnt been on the other side of this.

REMEMBER, the PRIORITY of any change in systems is, in order:
- to provide AT LEAST a minimum of service requirements, as delineated in the RFP.
- to cause as little impact to users. lost productivity in the name of saving a buck is far more expensive then not.
- to provide said minimum at a MINIMUM (or as close to it) of cost, or cost increase if replacing an existing solution
- THEN come any other considerations- eg reducing foreign dependence, saving money, etc.

It is completely possible, and even likely, that for the above example Nutanix was the best of all possible options. If you are really concerned, the RFP process for government contracting is usually in the public domain and would be available for you to read though.