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
Microsoft is gradually losing Europe and Gates has recently begun 'donating'
(bribing) to slow this down. He'll soon speak in Berlin about his 'donations'
for political support. The man is a snake and he knows it, but he bought many
media companies to hide this.
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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