To coincide with EURO 2008, I’m embarking on a virtual European tour, taking a quick look at open source policies and deployment projects in the 16 nations that are competing in the tournament. The Czech Republic team was just three minutes away from qualifying for the knockout stages of EURO 2008 on Sunday before Turkey managed to turn a 2-1 deficit into a 3-2 win.
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Government CIOs 'do not understand open source'
Government CIOs that dismiss open source software because of support issues, which is the case for the Australian Tax Office, Defence and Centrelink, simply do not understand the concept, according to Sun Microsystems.
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Becta, open source and education: Too little, too late?
Slow adoption of open source and free software in UK schools can be attributed to the same kind of inertia that afflicts SMEs in the UK.
Read more »SITA braves open source
The State IT Agency (SITA) is transferring its entire technology infrastructure to free, open source and open standards software (FOSS).
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Open Source PLUS Open Standards are a “Smart Business Decision” Says E.U.
The New York Times reports today a hard rebuke from European Union’s competition commissioner, Neelie Kroes, against Microsoft’s tactics in Europe. In her speech she offered up some advice worth heeding; “I know a smart business decision when I see one — choosing open standards is a very smart business decision indeed,” Ms. Kroes told a conference in Brussels.
Read more »Breaking Barriers: using free and open source software for development
The successful deployment of free and open source software (FOSS) in projects in Africa, Asia-Pacific, Europe and Latin America are described in a publication entitled "Breaking Barriers" by UNDP's Asia-Pacific Development Information Programme.
Read more »Non-profit organizations favor open source CMS
NTEN, the Nonprofit Technology Network, has just published the 2008 Content Management Systems Satisfaction Survey. It appears that non-profit organizations prefer open source solutions than proprietary one. These solutions maximize their resources allocation and give them the best of contemporary technologies.
Read more »Open source tour of Europe: Romania
When it comes to open source adoption, Romania is also well behind some of it European neighbours, although given the socio-political changes that have taken place in Eastern Europe in the last 20 years it is no surprise that the maturity of the IT industry in many countries is well behind what we see in Western Europe and the US.
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France: Education Ministry encourages Open Source use
The department at the French Ministry of Education that is handling purchasing of software and software licenses is increasing its Open Source offerings to some 1.5 million teachers and education workers in 250 institutes France.
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Commentary - Your Second Economic Stimulus Check Is On Its Way
"[...]One of Obama's first executive acts may be to standardize all Federal offices to OpenOffice.org[...]The effect of this is a second economic stimulus check. You get increased productivity at lower cost."
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Vienna failed to migrate to GNU/Linux: why?
Several governments and councils reported multi-year migration plans to GNU/Linux. Free software activists praised each one of them in their blogs and commentaries. However, a few months or years on, some of those plans crumbled. Vienna is one of them. A question here begs to be answered: why did it happen?
Read more »Linux adoption corrupted by the highest bidder?
We see articles all the time about a city or school district, counties and state entities adopting the use of Linux. Most often associated with cost cutting measures. They praise the "freedom" of Linux and the ability to roll out large numbers of installs at a much lower total cost.
Read more »Should governments legislate open source?
Governments need open source because it preserves choice. No government should cede sovereignty to any private enterprise.
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Bulgaria: 'Government's increasing use of Open Source inevitable'
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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Dutch Parliament to use open source software
Okay, it’s a small and very secure step, but Dutch MP’s will start using open source software that runs from an encrypted USB drive.
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