In case you were wondering what exactly this MS money is:
Francisco Mingorance, Secretary General at the Cloud Infrastructure Service Providers in Europe (CISPE) association, explained that as part of the settlement reached with Microsoft last year an innovation fund was set up using Microsoft's cash.
Some €1 million of that has now been allocated to Fulcrum, an open source project to aggregate products from smaller tech vendors to rival the hyperscalers, he said.
Sounds really good.
"It's happening," he said. "There's been work going on for over a year on this, you know, coding and everything, testing, proof of concept...
Um. "coding and everything"? "Proof of concept"? So they don't really have anything (yet)? Well, let's hope they get there anyhow.