Fass.se Migrates to Red Hat Enterprise Linux
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| With Red Hat solutions, FASS.se is experiencing approximately 40 percent cost
| savings and has seen its new operational environment double functions on all
| levels.
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http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/070905/20070905005048.html?.v=1
Just a day or two ago it was France.
French education ministry completes migration to Red Hat
http://www.computerworlduk.com/management/government-law/public-sector/news/index.cfm?RSS&NewsId=5008
Related:
Microsoft admits Swedish employee promised incentives for Open XML support
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| Microsoft Corp. admitted Wednesday that an employee at its Swedish subsidiary
| offered monetary compensation to partners for voting in favor of the Office
| Open XML document format's approval as an ISO standard.
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http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9033701
The Swedish OOXML vote has been declared invalid!
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| 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/
Microsoft managed to buy the vote of Sweden in ISO?
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| 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
A Virtual Open Source Center to Nordic Countries
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| 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
Telepo Licenses Fixed-Mobile Convergence Solutions to Leading Telecom
Provider
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| Telepo's solutions are built on Linux and open IETF standards, such
| as SIP, HTTP and LDAP to offer interoperability with a wide range of
| endpoint devices, legacy systems and other business applications --
| now and in the future.
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http://www.wirelessdevnet.com/news/2007/feb/08/news6.html
Swedish Armed Forces Chooses Red Hat and Open Source
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| Swedish Armed Forces has made the decision to migrate its servers
| from Windows NT to Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Following the deal,
| the Swedish Armed Forces will start replacing Windows NT with Red
| Hat Enterprise Linux across its core IT infrastructure.
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http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/newsnow/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&ndmConfigId=1004993&newsId=20070206005256
http://tinyurl.com/32lcgz
Swedish Police Commission Introduces Open Source
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| [PJ, Groklaw]: Our own Karl Jorgensen translates for us the following article
| from Sweden:] The police commission has decided to allow Open Source
| programs into it's IT environment. They expect to save hundreds of
| millions of kronor. "We want more freedom of choice," says Head of
| IT Lena Charpentier. The police commission has now finished its
| evaluation of open source. The result is positive. "We have tested
| it and seen that it works."... Doesn't it cost to migrate? "Of
| course migration costs. But over the long term, going for open
| source makes recruitment easier, as open source is common
| in the universities."
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http://computersweden.idg.se/2.139/1.81493 (in Swedish)
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