Ten big Dutch cities demand open standards
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| By stimulating open standards, the OSOSS program wants to raise the
| quality of government IT systems in the domains of accessibility,
| transparency, safety, and durability. Moreover, OSOSS strives to lower
| the total cost of ownership, because the use of open standards gives
| the flexibility to combine different software components from
| different manufacturers and the opportunity to choose the best
| combination. OSOSS wants government agencies to become less
| dependent on external software suppliers, such as Microsoft,
| Oracle, and SAP.
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| [...]
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| The recent evaluation by the city of Amsterdam shows that Linux
| and OpenOffice.org are serious alternatives to Microsoft Windows
| and Microsoft Office. A couple of smaller municipalities have
| tried OpenOffice.org and other open source software and they
| didn't have any problems with the software. However, the
| suppliers of some of the applications the municipalities used
| didn't support the open source software."
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http://trends.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=07/01/10/1921238&from=rss
The Netherlands seemed to be among the most pro-Linux countries (maybe bar
Finland), judging by Web statistics.
Related:
Amsterdam mulls the Linux desktop
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| This shift in Dutch city government toward Linux and open source
| lends credibility to graduate student David B. Rankin recent
| hypothesis that desktop Linux may be nearing a tipping point
| within government settings, after which adoption can be expected
| to accelerate.
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http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS9492246163.html
Eight large Dutch cities issue statement in favor open source solutions.
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| Eight large cities in the Netherlands have issued a public
| statement underlining the principles behind their desire to use
| open source software and open document standards. These include
| supplier independence, interoperability and future accessibility
| and maintenance by other suppliers.
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http://www.ososs.nl/attachment.db?63959 (PDF, in Dutch)
EU report on FLOSS: "FLOSS saves money"
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20070112025016466
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