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SE: Losing vendor dependence helps Swedish police save 20 million
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| The Swedish National Police Board (SNPB)
| estimates to save about 20 million euro in the
| next five years by switching to open source
| application servers, open source database
| servers and standard computer server hardware,
| according to a case study published by the
| Open Source Observatory and Repository.
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http://www.osor.eu/news/sv-losing-vendor-dependence-helps-swedish-police-save-20-million
Recent:
Open source tour of Europe: Sweden
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| Other state projects include Apoteket Swedenâs largest state-owned pharmacy
| chain, which migrated to Red Hat Enterprise Linux at 900 pharmacies as part
| of a move to Intel hardware, and the Swedish Armed Forcesâ deal with Red Hat
| to enable migrations from Windows NT to Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
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http://blogs.the451group.com/opensource/2008/06/19/open-source-tour-of-europe-sweden/
Related:
Is there a correlation between Socialism and Free Software ?
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| And as far as Sweden is concerned, it is ranked as the 4th least corrupt
| nation in the world. A clue that it's people lead contented lives. And Sweden
| enjoys an ultra low unemployment rate of around 4% which is the least in the
| European Union.
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http://linuxhelp.blogspot.com/2007/10/is-there-correlation-between-socialism.html
Microsoft admits Swedish employee promised incentives for Open XML support
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| Microsoft Corp. admitted Wednesday that an employee at its Swedish subsidiary
| offered monetary compensation to partners for voting in favor of the Office
| Open XML document format's approval as an ISO standard.
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http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9033701
The Swedish OOXML vote has been declared invalid!
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| The swedish working group at SIS, Swedish Standards Institute, Document
| description languages SIS/TK 321/AG 17, decided in a vote on August 27, 2007,
| to vote yes to making Office Open XML an ISO standard. Today, the board of
| SIS decided to invalidate the vote.
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http://www.os2world.com/content/view/14874/2/
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