nikkei Japan, a “digital tenant farmer”, is in dire straits due to the weak yen. “Digital peasants” impoverished by weak yen, Japan’s wealth leaked to IT giants, not too weak yen (2) - Nihon Keizai Shimbun The more Japan moves toward DX, the more money is flowing overseas. The weak yen is catching up, and payments to Amazon and other companies with a large presence in the cloud are ballooning.
ID_JAPAN_AO I didn’t know it was in the news. That’s why Doyu Noboru commented that it’s not the people who use the cloud, but the people who can create it.
The first thing that’s funny is that “the more we move toward DX, the more money will flow overseas,” and that doesn’t mean we should value technologies that can create domestic clouds, such as Sakura Internet and Cybozu.
Cybozu’s cloud infrastructure site
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