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DE: Böblingen considering migration to Open Source desktop
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| The city of Böblingen in the south of Germany next year will try out
| migrating to an Open Source desktop. It wants to have an alternative in place
| when its current proprietary licences run out around 2010.
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| Three of the city's about a dozen departments will be moving to a desktop
| based on the Ubuntu GNU/Linux distribution, according to David Gümbel, an
| Open Source IT consultant helping the city administration with the migration.
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http://www.epractice.eu/document/5303
It's interesting that they did not choose SUSE.
Recent:
German Federal Government to Support ODF
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| State Secretary Dr. Hans Bernhard Beus, Federal Government for Information
| Technology and chairman of the IT Council, described the decision as "a major
| step to increase competition among software vendors to promote the IT
| security and strengthen the interoperability to improve because open document
| formats will be fully and regularly published."
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http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2008/12/german-federal-government-to-support.html
Germany: 'Cost of Open Source desktop maintenance is by far the lowest'
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| 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 spend only one thousand euro per desktop per year. That is
| far lower than other ministries, that on average spend more than 3000 euro
| per desktop per year."
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http://www.metamorphosis.org.mk/content/view/1279/4/lang,en/
German Home Savings and Loan Association Relies on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
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| Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), the world’s leading provider of open source solutions,
| today announced that Vereinsbank Victoria Bauspar AG (VVB), a German private
| home savings and loan association, has implemented SEP sesam running on Red
| Hat Enterprise Linux 5 to maintain its backup and recovery solution for all
| database applications in its two parallel data centers. The high-performance
| solution enhances data transfer rates, speeding the resolution of backups
| while reducing maintenance and administration efforts.
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http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20080804005235&newsLang=en
http://tinyurl.com/6g8bls
DE: Manual for migrating to Open Source updated
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| The German Ministry of the Interior has published the third edition of
| its 'Migrationsleitfaden', a manual for public administrations migrating to
| Open Source.
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http://ec.europa.eu/idabc/en/document/7675/469
Related:
Three German KDE Deployments
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| The IT Service Center Berlin has announced the development of a desktop
| system for the public services in Germany's capital (Google Translate to
| English). This is yet another public body making the switch to the Free
| Desktop system
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http://dot.kde.org/1212516937/
[German] Federal Employment Office switches to Linux
http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/102218
German Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) Deploys StarOffice
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| According to this German article, the German Federal Office for Information
| Security (BSI) is switching to StarOffice for all 500 desktop PCs. 90% of the
| BSI employees have already gone through the migration. Another great success
| story for ODF!
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http://blogs.sun.com/dancer/entry/german_federal_office_for_information
DE: One fifth of Freiburg city council migrated to OpenOffice
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| In the German city of Freiburg, four hundred of the two thousand PCs used by
| the city council are now running OpenOffice.
|
| The migration to the Open Source suite of office applications is a
| intermediate goal, saving the city up to half a million euro in licence
| costs. The city's final aim is to switch to an Open Source desktop.
|
| The council began its office application migration last July, when it decided
| to use the ISO-approved Open Document Format (ODF) as a document standard.
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http://ec.europa.eu/idabc/en/document/7538
Ubuntu landed on Berlin metro system
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| The guys from “Berliner Fenster”, a company responsible for the content of
| the television system installed inside underground vehicles (more than 3.700
| displays) were so kind (thank you!) providing us with a spot for our release
| party this Saturday for free. So just on time with the release starting from
| today there are small spots viewable by an audience of about 1.5 million
| people per day according to their web site.
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http://www.screenage.de/blog/2008/04/24/ubuntu-landed-on-berlin-metro-system/
DE: German Foreign Ministry will not use ISO OOXML
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| In the weeks prior to the second round of votes last September,
| irregularities were reported in the standard committees in many participating
| countries. These claims continued until after the final discussion, in
| February and March this year.
|
| The European Commission has started an investigation into the allegations.
| The Commission sent a letter to all EU national standards committees in
| Europe, requesting information about the process. Sources at the Commission
| declined to comment, as the investigation is on-going and no official
| position has yet been adopted.
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http://ec.europa.eu/idabc/en/document/7561
199 Euro laptop with OpenOffice.org pre-installed
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| I just found about this offer in Germany. A vendor called "one" is selling a
| low-cost laptop with Linux and OpenOffice.org pre-installed for 199 Euro.
| This special offer lasts until May 12th according to the website. Cool to see
| more and more hardware vendors bundle OpenOffice.org!
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http://blogs.sun.com/dancer/entry/199_euro_laptop_with_openoffice
City of Munich and German Federal Foreign Office start collaboration
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| According to this German article, the City of Munich and the German Federal
| Foreign Office have started to collaborate on the implementation of their
| open source and open standards strategies. I would not be surprised if other
| organizations decided to join the "alliance" as well. Anyway, very cool to
| see government organizations collaborate regarding the usage of open source
| and open standards.
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http://blogs.sun.com/dancer/entry/city_of_munich_and_german
German county adopts OpenOffice.org
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| According to this German article, the German county "Friesland" is adoption
| open source including OpenOffice.org. OpenOffice.org will be installed on the
| majority of the client systems.
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http://blogs.sun.com/dancer/entry/german_county_adopts_openoffice_org
German penal institutions looking into OpenOffice.org
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| It looks like that OpenOffice.org is also being used in areas where many of
| us don't expect it, or wouldn't research for. I have reports that some German
| penal institutions are looking into OpenOffice.org for their daily office
| work.
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http://ooomarketing.blogspot.com/2008/02/german-penal-institutions-looking-into.html
Green Euro MP supports call for better access to open source software
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| European citizens have the right to freely access documents and information
| from the institutions which represent them, and it is about time that the use
| of open source software became more widespread
|
| Open source software (1) should be more widely available in order to help
| reduce the 'digital divide', according to Dr Caroline Lucas, Green MEP for
| the South East.
|
| Dr Lucas has added her signature to a written declaration in the European
| Parliament - like an Early Day Motion (EDM) in the House of Commons -
| recognising the growing disparities in access to information and
| communication technologies throughout the European Union, and calling for
| increased use of open source technology.
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http://www.greenparty.org.uk/news/3424
EU: Europarlement testing Ubuntu, OpenOffice and Firefox
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| 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.
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http://ec.europa.eu/idabc/en/document/7565
Is Microsoft Now Banned from EU Contracts?
http://www.computerworlduk.com/toolbox/open-source/blogs/index.cfm?entryid=697&blogid=14
Euro MP thinks Microsoft should be banned from government contracts
http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/04/10/member-eu-parliament-asks
Green MEP says Microsoft should be excluded from EU contract awarding procedure
http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/106338/from/rss09
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