EU: Green MEP: EC should exclude Microsoft, not avoid issue
12 June 2008
Rühle in early April asked the Commission if article 93 of the EC procurement rules excluded Microsoft from participating in current or future tenders for IT projects.
The EC only last Monday replied that these rules offer the possibility, not the obligation, to exclude a company.
http://ec.europa.eu/idabc/en/document/7685...
2 October 2007
Member of the European Left in the European Parliament Erik Meijer wants the European Commission to study possibilities to ban the sale of PC with a pre-installed operating system.
http://ec.europa.eu/idabc/en/document/7228...
FR: 'Members of Parliament have easily adapted to Open Source desktop'
July 1 2008
The members of the French parliament say switching to an Open Source desktop was less complicated than they anticipated, says April, a French association to promote Open Source software. MP and their assistants have been using the GNU/Linux distribution Ubuntu for one year.
http://ec.europa.eu/idabc/en/document/7712...
10 April 2008
The European Parliament's IT department is testing the use of GNU/Linux distribution Ubuntu, OpenOffice, Firefox and other Open Source applications, the British MEP James Nicholson explained last week in a letter to Italian MEP Marco Cappato.
http://ec.europa.eu/idabc/en/document/7565...
09 Jun 2006
The tax authority in Lower Saxony, Germany is migrating 12,000 desktops to SuSE Linux and the open source KDE desktop.
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/0,1000000121,392... ...
Jan 20, 2009 06:26 PM
Open source desktops are far cheaper to maintain than proprietary desktop configurations, says Rolf Schuster, a diplomat at the German Embassy in Madrid and the former head of IT at the Foreign Ministry.
The Foreign Ministry is migrating all of its 11.000 desktops to GNU/Linux and other open source applications. According to Schuster, this has drastically reduced maintenance costs in comparison with other ministries. "The Foreign Ministry is running desktops in many far away and some very difficult locations. Yet we invest only one thousand euro per desktop per year. That is far lower than other ministries, that on average invest more than 3000 euro per desktop per year."
The ministry has so far migrated almost four thousand of its desktops to GNU/Linux and expects to complete the move by the summer of 2009, Schuster said. About half of all the 230 embassies and consulates have now been switched over. "It is not without problems. Our developers don't know Japanese, so they don't understand the problem and we have to look for a developer in Japan to help us with some font issues we have in OpenOffice."
http://www.osor.eu/news/de-foreign-ministry-... ...
12 July 2004
A French government department is replacing its legacy Microsoft NT servers with an open source product from Mandrakesoft.
Announcing the deal, the Linux distributor said that the French Ministry of Equipment was replacing 1,500 office and infrastructure Microsoft Windows NT servers with Mandrakelinux corporate servers.
The move appears to be part of a general move towards Linux by the French government, which is wrestling with a large budget deficit.
http://hardware.silicon.com/servers/0,39024647,391221... ...
French police: we saved millions of euros by adopting Ubuntu
A recent report has revealed that France's national police force has saved an estimated 50 million euros since 2004 by adopting open source software and migrating a portion of the organization's workstations to Ubuntu Linux. They plan to roll out the Linux distro to all 90,000 of their workstations by 2015.
March 11, 2009
http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2009/03/... ...
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