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High-Level Alignment & Shared Vision

  1. Digital Sovereignty: This is the strongest and most obvious synergy. Both projects are explicitly focused on building European, open-source solutions to provide alternatives to proprietary systems, enabling organizations (especially public sector and SMEs) to retain control over their data and infrastructure.
  2. Open Source Philosophy: Both are deeply rooted in open source, promoting collaboration, transparency, and community-driven development.
  3. Targeting Public Sector: While Hop3 also targets SMEs, both see the public sector as a key user base requiring sovereign, secure, and manageable solutions.
  4. Security & Compliance: Both prioritize security (secure-by-design, supply chain security) and aim to facilitate compliance with European regulations (GDPR, CRA, potentially NIS2).
  5. EU Focus: Both projects have a clear European orientation and are involved in European initiatives (NGI0, EUCloudEdgeIoT for Hop3; direct engagement with DINUM/zendis for EU OS).

A Perspective on EU OS & Abilian (Hop3) Synergy

The alignment between the EU OS project and Abilian’s vision, particularly through its Hop3 PaaS, presents significant mutual perspectives:

  1. For EU OS: Abilian offers the perspective of enhanced technical robustness and sovereign infrastructure support. By leveraging Abilian’s deep expertise in Nix, secure software supply chains, and PaaS architecture (Hop3), EU OS can strengthen its build processes, deployability, and even host its own development/distribution infrastructure on a sovereign European platform. This adds credibility and practical application of the sovereignty principle from the ground up.

  2. For Abilian: EU OS offers the perspective of becoming a key catalyst for Hop3 adoption and growth within the European public sector. As administrations embrace EU OS for desktops, a natural demand will arise for sovereign, manageable platforms to host their web applications and services. Hop3 is perfectly positioned to fill this gap, creating a clear pathway for Abilian to solidify its role as a pivotal enabler of a complete European sovereign digital stack.

Overall Perspective: This collaboration envisions a future where a European sovereign desktop (EU OS) seamlessly integrates with and drives demand for European sovereign application hosting (Hop3). This creates a robust, mutually reinforcing ecosystem that significantly benefits public administrations and accelerates Europe’s journey towards genuine digital independence.

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