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| Current Newswire:
Fred Mobach: German goverment continues Open Source promotionMay 28, 2000, 12:29 (1 Talkback[s])(Other stories by Fred Mobach) [ Thanks to Fred Mobach for this report: ] "Heise Online has published a story on this topic at http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/hps-19.05.00-000/
(in German). The German Department of Economy BMWi (http://www.bmwi.de/) wants to promote the
use of Open Source Software in small and medium sized companies as
well as in the public administration. They will publish a
brochure with practical examples how to implement OSS. They are also planning an Open Source Mediator like Sourceforge. The research center for Open Communikation Systems FOKUS (http://www.fokus.gmd.de/) of the German National Research Centre for Information Technology GMD will go on-line within some months with their BerliOS project (http://www.berlios.de/). At http://www.fokus.gmd.de/news/content.html you can find a link to the FOKUS newsletter number 1 of Februari 2000 in PDF format, which contains a short description of the project. The webpages referred in this paragraph are written in English." |