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[News] Report: GNU/Linux is Rising in US Government

  • Subject: [News] Report: GNU/Linux is Rising in US Government
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 22:47:46 +0000
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Netscape / schestowitz.com
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Linux rising in the government sector as Unix slowly ebbs

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| And Linux is on the rise in the government market while Unix is declining, he 
| said. As an operating system, Linux is on 12 percent of all government 
| servers currently and Smith said it would rise to 19 percent within the next 
| few years as Unix wanes.   
`----

http://www.echannelline.com/usa/story.cfm?item=22642


Recent:

Federal Government Votes for Open Source

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| The Federal Open Source Alliance, an organization devoted to open source 
| education, today announced the results of its “Federal Open Source 
| Referendum” study, the first annual report designed to identify current open 
| source adoption rates and trends in the Federal market.    
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http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/071101/20071101005877.html?.v=1


Related:

Linux reaches the Italian Parliament

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| As reported by the Italian newspaper Repubblica on July 10th, 2007, a plan 
| suggested by the left deputies Pietro Folena and Franco Grillini to migrate 
| all the computers of the Parliament from Windows to Linux was approved by the 
| Chamber.   
| 
| The migration will affect about 3500 boxes of the Chamber, both desktops and 
| servers, and each Deputy/Party may also ask to migrate his/its (private) 
| computers to the Free System.  
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http://3v1n0.tuxfamily.org/blog/linux-docs/italian-parliament-moves-to-linux/


The French Parliament switches to Ubuntu

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| The French Parliament looks to be the next big Ubuntu switcher according to 
| reports. Recently the Parliament produced an official government report 
| that recommended the use of free software over proprietary software. The 
| switch to free software is expected to provide a substantial savings to the 
| tax-payers according to the government study.
`----

http://fridge.ubuntu.com/node/814


Socialist Party Netherlands wants to abolish Windows monopoly

,----[ Quote ]
| She asked the minister of state if he is prepared to ask the Dutch Rivalry 
| Authority NMa (Institution that controls economical abuse, competition etc.) 
| to research if Microsoft is in an illegal monopoly position at the moment.  
`----

http://mckooiker.byethost5.com/blog/?p=47


Dutch Consumer Association declares war on Vista

http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2007/10/13/dutch_consumer_association_declares_war/


Open source test successful

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| 28 September 2007 - A test with open source software has been successful and 
| there are no technical impediments to introducing such software in the entire 
| municipal organisation, Amsterdam announced this week at a meeting organised 
| by the Ministry of the Interior.   
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http://www.nieuwsuitamsterdam.nl/English/2007/09/open_source_success.htm


Dutch political party's youth department switching to open source software

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| DWARS, the youth department of Dutch political party GroenLinks, wants open 
| source software to be the standard for computers and internet. 
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http://digg.com/linux_unix/Dutch_politcal_party_s_youth_department_switching_to_open_source_software


Decision on open source in December

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| If the outcome is positive, 10,000 municipality employees will change to open 
| source software. 
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http://www.nieuwsuitamsterdam.nl/English/2007/09/open_source.htm


Netherlands Picks ODF

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| Frank Heemskerk, Minister of Economic Affairs, announced today that ODF will 
| be the standard for reading, publishing and the exchange of information for 
| all governmental organisations. The deadline is January 2009.  
`----

http://gotze.eu/2007/09/netherlands-picks-odf.html

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