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First, they studied recent tenders and found that many explicitly mentioned proprietary applications. 16% of 3615 software tenders explicitly asked for products from top 10 software vendors, such as Microsoft, SAP and Oracle.

Fossbazaar: "Public administrations in Europe have to follow public tender procedures and the new guidelines give practical and legal advice on how open source software and related services can be incorporated into the procurement process."

The Open Road: "...The Register is reporting that Microsoft is saying all the right things to the UK government in its attempt to placate the European Commission over interoperability with open file formats.

Everything, that is, except how it intends to make its software more interoperable."

The Polish consumer watchdog has forwarded to the European Commission an investigation into Microsoft after concluding the software giant may be harming competition by colluding with laptop makers, it said.

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

A new global standard for the enforcement of intellectual monopolies is currently being discussed by representatives of the United States, the European Commission, Japan, Switzerland, Canada, Australia, Korea, Mexico and New Zealand.

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.

Microsoft suffered a stunning defeat on Monday when a European Union court backed a European Commission ruling that the US software giant illegally abused its market power to crush competitors.

In the same week in which Bulgarian Prime Minister Sergei Stanishev placed the first pre-emptive strikes against a possibly negative report from the European Commission over the lack of progress in Bulgaria's ...

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.