The Open Source Observatory (OSOR.eu) articles I wrote and published for the European Commission in October 2020.
The Open Source Observatory (OSOR.eu) articles I wrote and published for the European Commission in September 2020.
The Open Source Observatory (OSOR.eu) articles I wrote and published for the European Commission in August 2020.
The Open Source Observatory (OSOR.eu) articles I wrote and published for the European Commission in July 2020.
The Open Source Observatory (OSOR.eu) articles I wrote and published for the European Commission in May 2020.
The Open Source Observatory (OSOR.eu) articles I wrote and published for the European Commission in April 2020.
The Open Source Observatory (OSOR.eu) articles I wrote and published for the European Commission in March 2020.
The Open Source Observatory (OSOR.eu) articles I wrote and published for the European Commission in February 2020.
The Open Source Observatory (OSOR.eu) articles I wrote and published for the European Commission in January 2020.
The Open Source Observatory (OSOR.eu) articles I wrote and published for the European Commission in December 2019.
The Open Source Observatory (OSOR.eu) articles I wrote and published for the European Commission in November 2019.
The Open Source Observatory (OSOR.eu) articles I wrote and published for the European Commission in October 2019.
The Open Source Observatory (OSOR.eu) articles I wrote and published for the European Commission in September 2019.
The Open Source Observatory (OSOR.eu) articles I wrote and published for the European Commission in August 2019.
The Open Source Observatory (OSOR.eu) articles I wrote and published for the European Commission in July 2019.
The Open Source Observatory (OSOR.eu) articles I wrote for the European Commission in March and April 2019.
The Open Source Observatory (OSOR.eu) articles I wrote for the European Commission in February 2019.
The Open Source Observatory (OSOR.eu) articles I wrote for the European Commission in January 2019.
The Open Source Observatory (OSOR.eu) articles I wrote for the European Commission in December 2018.
The Open Source Observatory (OSOR.eu) articles I wrote for the European Commission in November 2018.
The Open Source Observatory (OSOR.eu) articles I wrote for the European Commission in October 2018.
The Open Source Observatory (OSOR.eu) articles I wrote for the European Commission in September 2018.
The Open Source Observatory (OSOR.eu) articles I wrote and published for the European Commission in August 2018.
The Open Source Observatory (OSOR.eu) articles I wrote and published for the European Commission in July 2018.
The Open Source Observatory (OSOR.eu) articles I wrote and published for the European Commission in February 2018.
The Open Source Observatory (OSOR.eu) articles I wrote and published for the European Commission in December 2017.
The Open Source Observatory (OSOR.eu) articles I wrote and published for the European Commission in November 2017.
The Open Source Observatory (OSOR.eu) articles I wrote and published for the European Commission in October 2017.
The Open Source Observatory (OSOR.eu) articles I wrote and published for the European Commission in September 2017.
The Open Source Observatory (OSOR.eu) articles I wrote and published for the European Commission in August 2017.
The Open Source Observatory (OSOR.eu) articles I wrote and published for the European Commission in May & June 2017.
The Open Source Observatory (OSOR.eu) articles I wrote and published for the European Commission in March 2017.
The Open Source Observatory (OSOR.eu) articles I wrote and published for the European Commission in March 2017.
The Open Source Observatory (OSOR.eu) articles I wrote and published for the European Commission in February 2017.
The Open Source Observatory (OSOR.eu) articles I wrote and published for the European Commission in January 2017.
The Open Source Observatory (OSOR.eu) articles I wrote and published for the European Commission in December 2016.
The Open Source Observatory (OSOR.eu) articles I wrote and published for the European Commission in November 2016.
The Open Source Observatory (OSOR.eu) articles I wrote and published for the European Commission in October 2016.
The Open Source Observatory (OSOR.eu) articles I wrote and published in September 2016 for the European Commission.
The Open Source Observatory (OSOR.eu) articles I wrote and published in August 2016 for the European Commission.
The Open Source Observatory (OSOR.eu) articles I wrote and published in June 2016 for the European Commission.
The Open Source Observatory (OSOR.eu) articles I wrote and published in May 2016 for the European Commission.
The Open Source Observatory (OSOR.eu) articles I wrote and published in April 2016 for the European Commission.
The Open Source Observatory (OSOR.eu) articles I wrote and published in March 2016 for the European Commission.
My Open Source Observatory (OSOR.eu) headlines from February 2016, transmogrified into clickable links to the articles.
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The Dutch police’s Internet Research and Investigation Network (iRN) by default only uses free and open source solutions based on open standards and developed publicly.
All the Open Source Observatory (OSOR.eu) headlines from November 2013, transmogrified into clickable links to the articles.
In Europa wird der Einsatz von Open-Source-Software allmählich zur Erfolgsstory.
It took them a few months, they said, but the folks at Syone, ESOP and Caixa Mágica in Portugal managed a great line-up for the Evento Linux conference, on 26 September 2013.
Public administrations need not fear switching to open source, says Matthias Günter, until last month CIO of the Swiss Federal Institute of Intellectual Property. “Wherever we use it, after the usual careful selection that we apply to any software implementation, it proves its worth.”
Exit costs, the cost of IT vendor lock-in, the cost of network effects and innovation should be included in any Total Cost of Ownership financial estimate of IT projects, says the OpenForum Academy, a think-tank.
The board of the German city council of Freiburg should disclose the analysis that underlies its move back to proprietary office software, say the Open Source Business Alliance, the Free Software Foundation Europe and the Bundesverbands Informations- und Kommunikationstechnologie.
Parliaments around the world are only slowly increasing their use of free and open source solutions, according to the World e-Parliament Report 2012, published last week.
The cadastre administration in Luxembourg uses open source software solutions where possible.
Spain’s public administrations are aware of the advantages of sharing and reusing software solutions.
The 4200 desktop PCs used in the public administration of the German city of Mannheim are completely locked-in by proprietary software, says head of the city’s IT infrastructure department, Gerd Armbruster.
All laptops used by European officials should have either LibreOffice or OpenOffice installed, two open source suites of office applications. This suggest the mayor of the German city of Munich, Christian Ude, to Neelie Kroes.
Of the fifteen million civil servants in the member states of the European Union, those in education and health care not included, 105 thousand use a PC running an open source operating system.
The European Commission’s IDABC unit responsible for the Open Source Software Observatory and Repository (OSOR) will publish it’s own derivative of Debian GNU/Linux to provide organisations with an easy way to create blogs and forums, the unit announced on Friday.
Software tenders by European public administration often may not comply with EU regulations, illegally favouring proprietary applications. “These tenders could be protested against, and if necessary the tendering organisations could be taken to court”, said Karel De Vriendt, head of the IDABC unit responsible for the Open Source Software Observatory and Repository (osor.eu).
The new version of the GNU General Public Licens (GPLv3) has increased the usefulness of the licence to the French government, says Thierry Aimé, an IT architect at the French ministry of Finance.
The Swedish Standards Institute (SIS) approved the Open Document Format (ODF) as a national standard, the ODF Alliance reported this week.