Open Source Meets Business Congress founder boosts OSS in Europe
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| This week Richard Seibt, the final CEO of an independent SUSE, held his third
| Open Source Meets Business Congress in Nurnberg, Germany -- birthplace of
| SUSE. Seibt says the event plays host to 720 people, 60% of whom identify
| themselves as "c-level decision makers" and 20% of whom say they are "IT
| professionals."
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http://www.linux.com/feature/125622
Yesterday:
OBOOE: Open source business sector launches a European federation
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| OBOOE is new umbrella Federation bringing together European business
| associations and organizations related to free, libre and open source
| software. The Federation goals are to encourage cross-border networking
| between national initiatives and to become a voice for the sector.
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http://www.zeapartners.org/articles/obooe003
EUR 75,000 Prize Money for European Open Source Business Plans
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| First place, earning prize money to the tune of EUR 50,000, went to Rapid-I,
| an open source data mining specialist from Dortmund (http://rapid-i.com).
| Second prize, carrying EUR 15,000, was taken by Open Bravo S.L., an open
| source ERP company from Pamplona in Spain (http://www.openbravo.com). The
| third place and EUR 10,000 were presented to brox IT-Solutions GmbH from
| Hanover, a specialist in data optimization and the personalized tracking of
| information (http://www.brox.de ).
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http://media.netpr.pl/notatka_92301.html
Related:
European spend on open source software hits 22bn Euros
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| Rishab Ghosh, a senior researcher at the UN University in Maastricht,
| will tell the Open Ireland conference in Dublin that the spend in the
| US on free/libre or open source software (FLOSS) stands at 36bn
| Euros and accounts for 20pc of software spend in the US.
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http://www.siliconrepublic.com/news/news.nv?storyid=single7850
Source of the revolution
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| According to Ghosh, the notional value of Europe's investment in
| free/libre or open source software (FLOSS) today is e22bn,
| representing 20.5pc of the region's total software investment.
| Spending on OSS stands at e36bn and accounts for 20pc of software
| expenditure in the US.
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http://www.siliconrepublic.com/news/news.nv?storyid=single8105
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