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A proposed acquisition by HP of computer services company EDS has won approval from the European Commission.

The European Commission is considering doing research on whether it should migrate to Open Source software, the EC's director of corporate IT solutions and services, Christos Ellinides, told Reuters in an interview.

Robert Andrews - Thu 05 Jun 2008 07:15 AM PST The European Commission has nodded through Nokia's acquisition of Oslo-based embedded software firm Trolltech , first agreed in January.

ZDNet UK: "Monday's announcement has already drawn praise from some of the same players in the open-source community who, little more than a year ago, criticised Becta for being too closely aligned with Microsoft..."

Authorities Standardization in Brazil, South Africa and Croatia approve ODF as the national standard. More info you can find:Brazil: http://homembit.com/2008/04/odf-is-now-a-brazilian-standard-nbr-isoiec-2... Africa: http://www.tectonic.co.za/?p=2365Croatia: http://ec.europa.eu/idabc/en/document/7563/469

Microsoft announced Friday it's appealing the $1.39 billion fine the European Commission imposed for failure to comply with its historic 2004 antitrust order against the Redmond giant .

IBM may be starring down the barrel of an EC investigation of its precious mainframe business, significant to its bottom line.

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