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[News] Swedish Police Saves a Fortune by Choosing Free Software and Linux

  • Subject: [News] Swedish Police Saves a Fortune by Choosing Free Software and Linux
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2007 11:14:24 +0100
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Netscape / schestowitz.com
  • User-agent: KNode/0.10.4
The Swedish National Police Move to an Open Source Infrastructure With MySQL
Enterprise Unlimited

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| Swedish National Police is implementing an enterprise-wide project for 
| building all future IT systems on an open source software ("OSS") 
| infrastructure based upon Linux, MySQL and JBoss. Several existing systems 
| are currently being migrated and all future projects will be developed on 
| this OSS foundation.    
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http://www.prweb.com/releases/2007/10/prweb557725.htm

The locals are very pleased.

Swedish police saves 400 cars by using MySQL

http://theworldofapenguin.blogspot.com/2007/10/swedish-polis-saves-400-cars-by-using.html


Recent:

Red Hat scores Swedish pharmacy contract

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| Apoteket, the pharmacy network, will convert to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 
| running on Intel hardware, Red Hat said. Financial terms of the deal were not 
| disclosed.  
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http://biz.yahoo.com/bizj/070918/1522057.html?.v=1


The Swedish OOXML vote has been declared invalid!

,----[ Quote ]
| The swedish working group at SIS, Swedish Standards Institute, Document 
| description languages SIS/TK 321/AG 17, decided in a vote on August 27, 2007, 
| to vote yes to making Office Open XML an ISO standard. Today, the board of 
| SIS decided to invalidate the vote.   
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http://www.os2world.com/content/view/14874/2/


OOXML approval system open to abuse

,----[ Quote ]
| Whether or not OOXML is a good candidate for an open standard is beside the 
| point: there is prima facie evidence of voting in bad faith, without proper 
| consideration of all the aspects of the proposal.  
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http://news.zdnet.co.uk/leader/0,1000002982,39288965,00.htm?r=1


Microsoft managed to buy the vote of Sweden in ISO?

,----[ Quote ]
| When a friend of mine arrived, it was clear that it all was stuffing going on 
| from Microsoft side. All Microsoft partners in Sweden was at that meeting. 
| People against OOXML got an offer to leave the meeting without paying the fee 
| (not becoming a member). Everyone left, including IBM that thought it all was 
| a farse.    
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http://stupid.domain.name/node/382


Microsoft managed to buy the vote of Sweden in ISO?

,----[ Quote ]
| When a friend of mine arrived, it was clear that it all was stuffing going on 
| from Microsoft side. All Microsoft partners in Sweden was at that meeting. 
| People against OOXML got an offer to leave the meeting without paying the fee 
| (not becoming a member). Everyone left, including IBM that thought it all was 
| a farse.    
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http://stupid.domain.name/node/382


Related:

A Virtual Open Source Center to Nordic Countries

,----[ Quote ]
| The initiative was confirmed during the Norwegian IT-minister Heidi 
| Grande Roys' visit in Finland. The leader of COSS, Petri Rasanen, 
| stated that the steady operation of COSS is a good base to build 
| the international collaboration on, and for example the web site 
| of the new center will be based on the COSS portal.
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http://www.swbusiness.fi/portal/news/news_from_software_business_cluster/other_news/?id=18528

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