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Current Newswire: Ultimate Firefox Productivity Tips: For the Geeks. GoldenDict: A Dictionary Nugget Would You Like Linux With Your Jello? Why I Use Linux: Lofton’s Story Go to Toys 'R Us for your Linux netbook needs Sun xVM VirtualBox 3.0: Virtual Developer's Delight Apple Wary of Ogg Theora: No Agreement Yet on HTML5 Video Standard Freedom is not Free for Countries nor Computer Users Eyecandy Themes For Ubuntu - Download directly from Synaptic - No More Hassles Sifting Through Billions and Billions of Bytes Security Engineer (PA) Next Step Systems US-PA-Philadelphia Post A Job | Post A Resume VNUnet: Europe Picks Penguin to Link Government IT Jul 18, 2003, 19 :00 UTC (20 Talkback[s]) (5442 reads) (Other stories by Peter Williams) "A European Commission working paper on linking national government IT systems across Europe is recommending open source software. "The paper, Linking up Europe: the Importance of Interoperability for E-government Services, stressed that the planned European interoperability framework should be 'based on open standards and encourage the use of open source software.' "Andy Butler, vice president at analyst Gartner, described it as 'a loaded statement' which will be 'very provocative...'" Complete Story Related Stories: NetworkWorldFusion: EU Mulls Report of Microsoft Antitrust Pricing(May 15, 2003) Two on EU Microsoft Antitrust Case(Mar 12, 2003) CNET News: Is Microsoft Losing Ground to Linux?(Nov 04, 2002) Linux Journal: Europe Takes a Deeper Look at Free/Libre and Open-Source Software(Oct 02, 2002) Index Mode   |   Flat Mode   |   Thread Mode   |   Thread Flat     Talkback(s) Name  and Date   What would make Andy happy?    Cole Thompson Jul 18, 2003, 19:25:47     democracy vs absolute control    Alain EMPAIN Jul 18, 2003, 19:41:40     Thank Goodness...    david Jul 18, 2003, 19:58:49     MS's basic point is sound    Richard Simpson Jul 18, 2003, 21:06:55     the commission got it right    anthony Jul 18, 2003, 21:07:45     Andy isn't looking at it correctly.    Brandioch Conner Jul 18, 2003, 21:17:00     Mandating Open Source software doesn't exclude    SM Jul 18, 2003, 21:33:35     Re: MS's basic point is sound    Janne Jul 18, 2003, 22:01:27     MS is right!    Jo Øiongen Jul 18, 2003, 22:33:31     Re: MS's basic point is sound    wildpossum Jul 18, 2003, 23:53:25     Re: MS's basic point is sound    Brian Jul 18, 2003, 23:58:17     Re: MS's basic point is sound    TM Jul 19, 2003, 03:33:09     Where's Steve Ballmer when you need him?    Mikel Kirk Jul 19, 2003, 04:10:34     gartner    bob niederman Jul 19, 2003, 06:22:56     Re: MS's basic point is sound - WRONG!    bob niederman Jul 19, 2003, 06:36:41     Can't compete on merit, no problem    Its a joke right? Jul 19, 2003, 23:53:27     Re: MS's basic point is sound    Rainer Weikusat Jul 20, 2003, 08:36:20     Can't compete on merit, so let's block new    SM Jul 20, 2003, 08:38:23     Open Standards    drew Roberts Jul 20, 2003, 12:41:55     Re: MS's basic point is sound    Roman Fietze Jul 21, 2003, 07:14:05     Home | Search Talkbacks | Customize View    Top of Page   Enter your comments below: * Your Name: * Your Email Address: * Subject: CC: [will also send this talkback to an E-Mail address] * Comments: Tags allowed:<I>,<B> and <U>. See our talkback-policy for more about talkback content. Fields marked with * are required!

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