Schwarz seems to be obsessed with how Amazon (book seller) created AWS and they are trying to do the same... with 5 people. Also Aleph Alpha + Cohere is a Lidl work as the current CEO of the former led Lidl digital division.

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wasmitnetzen 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

Lidl famously blew 500M on a failed SAP project, so they're understandably a bit into running things themselves.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17541092

	▲	pronik 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		But they had the guts to back away. Not everyone does.

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scandox 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

So the 7,500 they say they're employing...is not true?

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ivan_gammel 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

Schwarz Gruppe includes Schwarz Digits, which include StackIT. 7500 is the number of employees at Digits, which also includes online marketplaces like Kaufland e-commerce, so definitely not all of them work on the sovereign cloud.

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ambicapter 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Lidl is a grocery store chain, I'm assuming GP was talking about the amount of people actually working on the cloud.

	▲	scandox 2 days ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Lidl has 375,000 employees. They have stated they employ 7,500 people in their digital services division.
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	▲	avra 2 days ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Yeah, Lidl and Kaufland are store chains, with 14200 stores combined. 7500 employees is just Schwarz Digits, the digital services division.

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