The Swiss Parliament on Wednesday rejected a motion calling on the government to create vendor independent e-government services, Swiss newspapers report. With 14 votes against and 12 vote in favour, the Swiss Council of States (Ständerat) threw out a motion, submitted in 2011, requesting the government to create 'Non-discriminatory eGovernment solutions for Swiss farmers'.

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The Swiss Canton of Bern has decided to switch to Open Justitia, a management system for legal documents, developed as open source by the country's Federal Court. The canton procured support for the installing and maintaining the software from a Swiss IT service provider. One competitor disputes the contract. The firm, whose offer of its own proprietary alternative was turned down, is rallying for political support.

A clear majority in the council of the Swiss city of Bern has voted for a switch to free and open source IT solutions. It instructs the city's IT department to make future IT purchases platform and vendor neutral and to prefer using open source solutions. This way, the council wants to rid the city of IT vendor lock-in.

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A clear majority in the council of the Swiss city of Bern has voted for a switch to free and open source IT solutions. It instructs the city's IT department to make future IT purchases platform and vendor neutral and to prefer using open source solutions. This way, the council wants to rid the city of IT vendor lock-in.

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A clear majority in the council of the Swiss city of Bern has voted for a switch to free and open source IT solutions. It instructs the city's IT department to make future IT purchases platform and vendor neutral and to prefer using open source solutions. This way, the council wants to rid the city of IT vendor lock-in.

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The Swiss open source advocacy group /ch/pen revamped a database of open source use cases and business references. The 'OSS Directory' aims to make it easier for public administrations and companies to find open source IT solutions as well as providers of open source IT services.

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The Swiss open source advocacy group /ch/pen revamped a database of open source use cases and business references. The 'OSS Directory' aims to make it easier for public administrations and companies to find open source IT solutions as well as providers of open source IT services.

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The Swiss open source advocacy group /ch/pen revamped a database of open source use cases and business references. The 'OSS Directory' aims to make it easier for public administrations and companies to find open source IT solutions as well as providers of open source IT services.

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Public administrations need not fear switching to open source, says Matthias Günter, until last month CIO of the Swiss Federal Institute of Intellectual Property. "Wherever we use it, after the usual careful selection that we apply to any software implementation, it proves its worth."

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Public administrations need not fear switching to open source, says Matthias Günter, until last month CIO of the Swiss Federal Institute of Intellectual Property. "Wherever we use it, after the usual careful selection that we apply to any software implementation, it proves its worth."

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When procuring IT, there is a need for independent comparison of open source and proprietary applications, says Bruno Gygi, deputy head of the procurement competence centre at BBL, the Swiss Federal Office for Building and Logistics. "We want to make the use of open source a real possibility. Procuring entities need offers with detailed information to find out if an open source application is equal in capabilities to proprietary software and if it has the same options?"

When procuring IT, there is a need for independent comparison of open source and proprietary applications, says Bruno Gygi, deputy head of the procurement competence centre at BBL, the Swiss Federal Office for Building and Logistics. "We want to make the use of open source a real possibility. Procuring entities need offers with detailed information to find out if an open source application is equal in capabilities to proprietary software and if it has the same options?"