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Bulgaria Cabinet Short of Cash to Pay for Microsoft Deal
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| The latest charge involves BGN 20 M which the
| new government must find to pay Microsoft for
| the replacement of the old Windows system in
| offices of the State administration. The
| contact with Microsoft has been signed by the
| former cabinet, but according to the PM, they
| âforgotâ to slate money for the deal in the
| State budget.
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http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=109045
Recent:
Mozilla Firefox Catches up with Internet Explorer in Bulgaria
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| According to the Novinite website , In terms
| of market share, Mozilla Firefox is a lot
| more popular in Bulgaria than it is globally,
| and appears to be catching with Internet
| Explorer.
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http://blogs.mozilla-europe.org/?post/2009/10/12/Mozilla-Firefox-Catches-up-with-Internet-Explorer-in-Bulgaria
Prosecutors launch inquest into Government deal with Microsoft
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| Bulgarian prosecutors have launched a probe into the contract Bulgaria has
| signed with US software giant Microsoft for the acquisition of software for
| the needs of the state administration, Dnevnik daily reported on July 1.
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| The investigation will seek to determine whether any state administration
| employee has committed any malfeasance, which carries a maximum prison
| sentence of five years, Sofia city prosecution spokesperson Steliana
| Kozhouharova told the daily.
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http://www.sofiaecho.com/article/prosecutors-launch-inquest-into-government-deal-with-microsoft/id_30282/catid_66
BG: 'Government's increasing use of Open Source inevitable'
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| The Bulgarian government will turn more and more to Open Source software,
| predicts Krasimir Panayotov, coordinator of the GNU/Linux User Group in the
| city of Rousse, the country's fifth-largest city.
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http://ec.europa.eu/idabc/en/document/7662/469%20
BG: Bulgaria to review its IT strategy, considers Open Source
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| The Bulgarian government organised a meeting with Open Source companies and
| developers on 21 March in Sofia. Nikolay Vassilev, the minister for State
| Administration, told the representatives of software companies, IT services
| companies and Open Source developers that the government is about to review
| the state's IT system and that it wants to get a better understanding of Open
| Source software. The minister admitted he had once worked with Apple
| Macintosh, but had in the last thirteen years only experienced Microsoft
| applications. He told the Open Source advocates he would listen to their
| views on IT: "We have an open mind and will accept reasonable propositions."
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http://ec.europa.eu/idabc/en/document/7548
Related:
Bulgaria's open administration
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| In France, government agency ATICA has supported the use of open software in
| the French public sector. In a special report to the French prime minister,
| the agency provided an action plan and the requirements for open standards.
| One of the six priorities was the use of open software in the public
| administration. Denmark installed StarOffice in its education system, and in
| addition the program was installed in the homes of students. In Spain, the
| senate, the council for nuclear security, the interior ministry and the
| justice ministry have used server applications with open code. These
| examples, however, are only about separate public structures.
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http://www.sofiaecho.com/article/bulgarias-open-administration/id_27087/catid_23
Sofia, Bulgaria: FLOSSWorld Workshop on Free and Open Source Software Policy
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| Professor Ivan Evgueniev at the Technical University of Sofia presented
| the FP6 Open Trusted Computing project, professor Vencislav Trifonov
| also at the Technical University of Sofia presented their e-learning
| system, Mircho Mirev elaborated the activities of the Bulgarian free
| and open source software community through the Linux for Bulgarians
| portal with over 5.000 hits per day.
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http://www.metamorphosis.org.mk/content/view/877/4/lang,en/
President praises Open Source conference in Sofia
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| Topics include a presentation on how to configure a thin client
| infrastructure using the Linux Terminal Server Project, an outline on FreeBSD
| and its new network and transport protocols and a discussion on the uses of
| the Cluster File system.
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http://www.socialniprava.info/article1894.html
European spend on open source software hits 22 billion 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
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