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Delta Informatique looks to Mandriva Linux 2009 for its core
banking system in SociÃtà GÃnÃrale's Albania subsidiary
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| Mandriva, Europe's leading Linux publisher,
| devolps and releases every six months a new
| version designed to respond simply and
| efficiently to all users' needs, whether they
| are destined for professional or private
| activities.
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http://www.mandriva.com/enterprise/en/company/press/delta-informatique-looks-to-mandriva-linux-2009-for-its-core-banking-system-in-soci
Related:
France pins hopes of growth on open-source software
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| The French government plans to make the region around Paris a center of
| excellence for open-source software development, the French Minister of the
| Economy, Finance and Industry, Thierry Breton, said Monday.
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http://open.itworld.com/4915/061205franceopen/page_1.html
French National Assembly switches to Linux
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| Linux, OpenOffice and Firefox favoured
|
| [...]
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| One deputy in favour of the move is Bernard Carayon, commissioned by
| the Prime Minister earlier this year to report on how European
| businesses could play a greater role in developing global industrial
| standards, in order to reduce Europe's economic dependance on other
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| regions.
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http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/news/index.cfm?newsid=7687
French consumer protectionists are demanding PCs without preinstalled
software
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| The consumer protectionists of the French organization UFC-Que Choisir
| are demanding of the IT group Hewlett-Packard and the vendors Auchan
| and Darty that they offer PCs without preinstalled software.
|
| [...]
|
| UFC-Que Choisir last year also took action against Sony and Apple,
| taking the two companies to court for allegedly putting their
| customers at a disadvantage through proprietary DRM technologies
| and curtailing their choice of devices.
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http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/82605/from/rss09
French consumer group attacks PC software bundling
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| UFC-Que Choisir legal officer Sandra Wouhling said current
| practice effectively forced ordinary consumers to buy computers
| using Microsoft operating systems whereas companies anda
| dministrations were offered a real choice.
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http://yahoo.reuters.com/news/articlehybrid.aspx?storyID=urn:newsml:reuters.com:20061214:MTFH94365_2006-12-14_14-49-22_L14537403&type=comktNews&rpc=44
http://tinyurl.com/yf7kfu
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