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[News] 199 Euro GNU/Linux Laptops in Germany

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199 Euro laptop with OpenOffice.org pre-installed

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| I just found about this offer in Germany. A vendor called "one" is selling a 
| low-cost laptop with Linux and OpenOffice.org pre-installed for 199 Euro. 
| This special offer lasts until May 12th according to the website. Cool to see 
| more and more hardware vendors bundle OpenOffice.org!   
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http://blogs.sun.com/dancer/entry/199_euro_laptop_with_openoffice

The text is in German, but it's better than not knowing at all about what's
happening outside Land of Microsoft.


Recent:

EU: Europarlement testing Ubuntu, OpenOffice and Firefox

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| The European Parliament's IT department is testing the use of GNU/Linux 
| distribution Ubuntu, OpenOffice, Firefox and other Open Source applications, 
| the British MEP James Nicholson explained last week in a letter to Italian 
| MEP Marco Cappato.   
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http://ec.europa.eu/idabc/en/document/7565


City of Munich and German Federal Foreign Office start collaboration

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| According to this German article, the City of Munich and the German Federal 
| Foreign Office have started to collaborate on the implementation of their 
| open source and open standards strategies. I would not be surprised if other 
| organizations decided to join the "alliance" as well. Anyway, very cool to 
| see government organizations collaborate regarding the usage of open source 
| and open standards.     
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http://blogs.sun.com/dancer/entry/city_of_munich_and_german


The German Plan for Open Standards

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| The SAGA 4.0 document itself (PDF, 2.4 MB) states on page 114 that the Open 
| Document Format (ODF) version 1.0 is a "Recommended" standard... 
| 
| [...]
| 
| And it continues with stating PDF 1.4 as a mandatory standard (PDF 1.5 is a 
| recommended standard, PDF 1.6 is a standard under observation). 
| 
| What are "Recommended" standards, "Mandatory" standards and standards "Under 
| Observation"? Page 20 and page 21 explain the designations in full... 
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http://www.openmalaysiablog.com/2008/03/the-german-plan.html


DE: One fifth of Freiburg city council migrated to OpenOffice

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| In the German city of Freiburg, four hundred  of the two thousand PCs used by 
| the city council are now running OpenOffice. 
| 
| The migration to the Open Source suite of office applications is a 
| intermediate goal, saving the city up to half a million euro in licence 
| costs. The city's final aim is to switch to an Open Source desktop.  
| 
| The council began its office application migration last July, when it decided 
| to use the ISO-approved Open Document Format (ODF) as a document standard. 
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http://ec.europa.eu/idabc/en/document/7538


Germany upgrades ODF to "recommended"

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| The new version 4.0 of the document "Standards and Architectures for 
| eGovernment Applications" (SAGA) by the German Ministry of the Interior now 
| recommends ODF for text documents.   
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http://blogs.sun.com/dancer/entry/germany_upgrades_odf_to_recommended


German county adopts OpenOffice.org

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| According to this German article, the German county "Friesland" is adoption 
| open source including OpenOffice.org. OpenOffice.org will be installed on the 
| majority of the client systems.  
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http://blogs.sun.com/dancer/entry/german_county_adopts_openoffice_org


German ERP software vendor adds OpenOffice.org support

http://blogs.sun.com/dancer/entry/german_erp_software_vendor_adds


German portfolio analysis software supports OpenOffice.org

http://blogs.sun.com/dancer/entry/german_portfolio_analysis_software_supports


German penal institutions looking into OpenOffice.org

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| It looks like that OpenOffice.org is also being used in areas where many of 
| us don't expect it, or wouldn't research for. I have reports that some German 
| penal institutions are looking into OpenOffice.org for their daily office 
| work.   
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http://ooomarketing.blogspot.com/2008/02/german-penal-institutions-looking-into.html


[German] Federal Employment Office switches to Linux

http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/102218


Mayor of Munich opposes OOXML being made a Standard (German)

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| Munich's mayor Christian Ude says in a letter to the Federal Minister for 
| Economics and Technology, Michael Glos, he thinks there should be a 
| clear "no" to the standardization of OOXML. The German Institute for 
| Standardization (DIN) is currently evaluating how to vote in the ISO 
| standardisation procedure. All the city needs, Ude indicates, is OpenDocument 
| Format (ODF), already an ISO standard, and he believes competition is 
| weakened by a competiting standards....      
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http://www.heise.de/newsticker/Muenchner-Oberbuergermeister-lehnt-ISO-Standardisierung-von-OOXML-ab--/meldung/105074
http://www.groklaw.net/newsitems.php


Further to a post from yesterday about an embargo on Microsoft:

Is Microsoft Now Banned from EU Contracts?


http://www.computerworlduk.com/toolbox/open-source/blogs/index.cfm?entryid=697&blogid=14


Euro MP thinks Microsoft should be banned from government contracts

http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/04/10/member-eu-parliament-asks


Green MEP says Microsoft should be excluded from EU contract awarding procedure

http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/106338/from/rss09


DE: German Foreign Ministry will not use ISO OOXML

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| In the weeks prior to the second round of votes last September, 
| irregularities were reported in the standard committees in many participating 
| countries. These claims  continued until after the final discussion, in 
| February and March this year.   
| 
| The European Commission has started an investigation into the allegations. 
| The Commission sent a letter to all EU national standards committees in 
| Europe, requesting information about the process. Sources at the Commission 
| declined to comment, as the investigation is on-going and no official 
| position has yet been adopted.    
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http://ec.europa.eu/idabc/en/document/7561
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