European Commissioner Neelie Kroes:
"I know a smart business decision when I see one"
Competition Commissioner: 'EC must not accept closed standards'
Peter de Beijer, Dutch police force:
"The technologies are open. We are all performing the same tasks, we want to share and re-use and that is why we only consider open source tools."
The BIG trends
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Public administrations increasingly use free and open source
Major Stéphane Dumond (Gendarmerie, France): "Using an open source desktop lowers the total cost of ownership by 40%, in savings on proprietary software licences and by reducing costs on IT management."
French Gendarmerie: "Open source desktop lowers TCO by 40%"
Per Clausen (member of parliament, Denmark): "Our view is that we should choose a single standard. We could leave that decision to the market, but our textbooks also say that the state should intervene when that market develops in the direction of monopoly."
for everything, everywhere
and across all sectors
(see below)
Open source is everywhere
In the EU's institutions
European parliament releases its amendment software as open source
EC recommends supporting open document format
Two hundred ways to switch an EC Directorate to open source
Open source to formalise European railway specifications
Open source software assists European citizens to petition the EU
EUPL and CeCILL become compatible
Circabc 3.6 now available on Joinup
Open source is everywhere
In ministries
French Interior ministry: open source 5 to 10 times cheaper
Finland's ministry of Justice migrates to OpenOffice
German development ministry recommends open source to SMEs
Polish Economy ministry makes consultation site open source
Spain's Finance ministry offers open source email cloud service
Norway local gov ministry uses open source version control system
Open source is everywhere
In many towns, small and large
Germany's Munich
Spanish cities Zaragoza, Bilbao and Badajoz
Portugal's Vieira do Minho
Denmark's second-largest city Århus
Dutch city of Ede
Towns of Grygov and Jihlava in the Czech Republic
Villages of Arles, Voreppe and many others in France
Poland's Poznan
Italy's Bologna
Open source is everywhere
Across all sectors, including
healthcare
More and more Linux in Riga children hospital
Hospitals eyeing open source patient record system
Hospital in Porto to switch 3000 PCs to open source office suite
Danish hospital: "Hassle free use of ODF across competing office suites"
Rotterdam hospital selects open source for internal ordering system
Open source is everywhere
Across all sectors, including
education
such as a Greek kindergarten switched to Ubuntu Linux
Or schools in Austria
And the Westcliff High School for Girls Academy in the UK
WHSG school's Network Manager, Malcolm Moore:
"this school specialises in science and engineering and if our students are to go on to do great things like start the next Google or collapse the universe at CERN... they will certainly need to know Linux."
Open source is everywhere
Across all sectors, including
defence
Open source advancing at Dutch defence ministry
Polish Defence Ministry moving to open source email and groupware
NATO makes ODF one of its mandatory standards
Even the EC admits it is locked-in.
Open office choices grip multiple languages
Do as I say, not as I do.
MEP Andersdotter: 'EC procurement practice blocks European firms'
EC calls for use of ICT standards to battle IT vendor lock-in
EC considering hotline for procurement errors
'Discriminatory procurement specifications widespread'
Openforum Europe: Procurement law fails to address discriminatory practices
must hear Procuring software by mentioning brand names
must read Issues in open source procurement in the European public sector I
1. French Gendarmerie
72,000 Ubuntu Linux & LibreOffice desktops, per this summer
Major Stéphane Dumond (Gendarmerie, France): "It is possible to deploy thousands of Linux desktops. We did"
2. The government of Spain's Exremadura autonomous region
42,000 Ubuntu Linux desktops, eventually
Manuel Velardo (Cenatic, Spain): "Young CIOs are more used to open source than older ones."
Issues in open source procurement in the European public sector II
3. The city administration of Munich
14,800 Ubuntu Linux and LibreOffice desktops, now
Christian Ude (Mayor of Munich, Germany) ... Gates asked: “Mr. Ude, why are you doing this?”. Ude replied: “To gain freedom.” Gates: “Freedom from what?” Ude: “Freedom from you, Mr. Gates.”
ISA Report on Policies and Initiatives on Sharing and Re-use shows
All EU member states address sharing and re-use
About half of them have legislation
*Report on Policies and Initiatives on Sharing and Re-use*
Italy Code of Digital Administration, December 2013
Spain eGovernment Law (Law 11/2007)
Basque country Openness and Reuse of Applications of Public Administration of Basque Country Decree, July 2012
France Ayrault memorandum, September 2012
United Kingdom Cabinet Office standards hub
Netherlands Standardisation Board and Forum
EU: DAE #23 Against lock-in
The European Commission says:
"Many organisations are locked into their ICT systems, so that when they need to buy new components or licenses there are only few potential suppliers (or even just a single one).
This lack of competition leads to higher prices and some 1.1 billion euro per year is lost unnecessarily in the public sector alone.
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