Why Digital Sovereignty Comes Down to One Metric: Exit Velocity
SUSE, Saturday, September 19th, 2026
SUSE argues digital sovereignty is best measured by exit velocity, how fast you can leave a vendor.
SUSE reframes the digital sovereignty debate away from data residency checkboxes and toward a single practical metric: exit velocity, or how quickly an organization can move off a given platform.
The post contends that sovereignty claims mean little if switching costs make departure impossible in practice.
It positions open source and open standards as the structural way to keep exit costs low. European enterprises and public sector buyers are the primary audience for the argument.