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An EC decision on Oct. 31, 2014 designates OASIS UBL 2.1 a referable standard
Article 1 (EC Decision) "Universal Business Language version 2.1 developed by the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards is eligible for referencing in public procurement…
NEWSCreated: 07/11/2014Updated Date: 07/11/2014
NL – Awareness around Standard Business Reporting is growing
A recent survey shows that Dutch accountants and intermediaries are becoming aware of the Standard Business Reporting (SBR) specification. This is much needed, as Dutch Government decided that as from…
NEWSCreated: 27/03/2012Updated Date: 27/03/2012
DE: Gummersbach: 'Open source desktops much easier to manage'
Easier management is one of the main reasons for the German city of Gummersbach to switch its almost 350 PCs to the open source operating system GNU/Linux, a move that began already four years ago…
NEWSCreated: 28/09/2011Updated Date: 28/09/2011
ES: Guidelines to help local administrations procure open source
A guide aiming to help local governmental organisations to improve their IT procurement, was made public yesterday in Madrid. "This will help make it technically, legally and procedurally feasible for…
NEWSCreated: 21/10/2010Updated Date: 21/10/2010
Public Review of UBL 2.1 under way
The OASIS consortium has started the public review of revision 2.1 of the Universal Business Language (UBL), open until 2010-11-24. The Universal Business Language is designed to provide a universally…
NEWSCreated: 13/10/2010Updated Date: 13/10/2010
CH: Solothurn hints it will not scrap open source desktop
The Swiss canton of Solothurn on Monday suggested it will not scrap its open source plans. However, it wants to be able to also use proprietary desktop and email solutions. "The IT strategy, based on…
NEWSCreated: 21/09/2010Updated Date: 21/09/2010
FI: Over a hundred schools using open source
More than a hundred schools across Finland are using open source for all of their desktop PCs, according to Opinsys, an open source services provider. The company assists ninety schools in 28…
NEWSCreated: 13/05/2010Updated Date: 13/05/2010
DK: Competition authority wants EC's take on office market competition
The Danish Competition Authority wants to discuss with the European Commission how to enhance competition in the market for office software. It thinks the Danish public sector is too small to do this…
NEWSCreated: 18/09/2009Updated Date: 18/09/2009
DE: IT budget of Foreign Ministry small in comparison, due to open source
The use of open source by Germany's Foreign Ministry's makes its IT budget small in comparison with that of similar organisations, says Linbit, an Austrian provider of open source IT services. "It's…
NEWSCreated: 31/01/2009Updated Date: 31/01/2009
HU: Hearing on Competition Office complaint over Microsoft deal
The Metropolitan Court's (Fővárosi Bíróság) second hearing on a complaint by Hungary's Competition Office over a government software tender requesting "Microsoft or equivalent solutions" is scheduled…
NEWSCreated: 07/08/2008Updated Date: 07/08/2008
RS: Ministry backs localised GNU/Linux distribution and CMS
The Serbian Ministry of Telecommunications and Information Society last month presented Cp6Linux, a GNU/Linux distribution translated into Serbian, based on the GNU/Linux distributions Debian and…
NEWSCreated: 15/07/2008Updated Date: 15/07/2008
DK: Committee appointed to evaluate impact of Open Standards
The Danish government last Friday appointed five experts to evaluate the implementation of Open Standards in the country.
The committee is part of a study requested earlier by the Danish Parliament…
NEWSCreated: 30/05/2008Updated Date: 30/05/2008