Euro cloud providers react to MS potentially cutting deal on antitrust
Microsoft is close to resolving antitrust complaints lodged against it with the European Commission by local suppliers OVHcloud, Aruba S.p.A and Danish Cloud Community over alleged commercial abuses.
The complaint was focused on the higher costs of buying and running Microsoft software in clouds other than Azure, and technical adjustments needed to run some programs on competitors' clouds.settle the caseA spokesman at Microsoft said it didn't have a statement on the"possible settlement," but it did have something to say more generally about licensing changes.
We asked the European-based cloud trio for their perspective and found them all very unwilling to say anything of substance, potentially because the terms of any settlement would be confidential, and also likely would involve a financial element in addition to undertakings by Microsoft. Francisco Mingorance, Secretary General at CISPE, which counts OVH, Aruba and many others as members, told us today the decision by the trio to settle with Microsoft was"disappointing on many levels."What concerns our members is that it is still not clear what these deals are. They are bilateral and secret, and although we expect something to be offered to everyone across the market , it is not at all clear what the detail of those changes will be.
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