IT Reporter

The member states of the European Union (EU) made steady progress in 2008 in developing information technology (IT) policies on open source and open standards. Spain and France have taken the lead, yet in all EU member states examples of administrations using OSS can be found. Europe's competition commissioner Neelie Kroes warned the EU's institutions to follow suit and use open standards: "I know a smart business decision when I see one".

An article written on behalf of the Open Source Observatory and Repository for the Canadian Open Source Business Resource, May 2009.

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