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EU governments consider open source for contracts
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| The ministers will sign a declaration which
| sets out the goals for Europe-wide IT
| issues for the next five years.
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| "The declaration, which has been negotiated
| by the Cabinet Office, includes commitments
| to putting open-source solutions on an
| equal footing when it comes to awarding
| government contracts, and to making non-
| personal government data publicly available
| for re-use," said the Cabinet Office.
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http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2009/11/18/239299/eu-governments-consider-open-source-for-contracts.htm
Recent:
96% of French Public Sector Using Open Source Says New Service
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| According to a French market survey, almost the
| entire public sector (96 %) is using open source. The
| most used applications are database management
| systems and content management systems.
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| The research firm who carried out the survey
| presented a summary of its report on the use of open
| source in France on 17 September in Paris. The report
| is based on an online survey conducted during the
| summer of 2009 and followed up by interviews with 160
| IT project directors, heads of procurement and other
| IT decision makers, half of which are employed in the
| private sector and the other half representing the
| public sector. Another fifty interviews were held
| with IT vendors.
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http://www.egovmonitor.com/node/29338
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