Advocates of free and open source in public administrations are getting worried about developments in the autonomous regions of Extremadura and Andalusia. They fret that an upcoming feasability study on a proprietary cloud-based office suite and a proprietary database server will spell the end of the open source initiatives by the Extremadura regional government.

In Andalusia it is the replacement of a locally made enterprise resource system by a proprietary alternative that is troubling the open source enthousiasts.

Advocates of free and open source in public administrations are getting worried about developments in the autonomous regions of Extremadura and Andalusia. They fret that an upcoming feasability study on a proprietary cloud-based office suite and a proprietary database server will spell the end of the open source initiatives by the Extremadura regional government.

Advocates of free and open source in public administrations are getting worried about developments in the autonomous regions of Extremadura and Andalusia. They fret that an upcoming feasability study on a proprietary cloud-based office suite and a proprietary database server will spell the end of the open source initiatives by the Extremadura regional government.

In Andalusia it is the replacement of a locally made enterprise resource system by a proprietary alternative that is troubling the open source enthousiasts.

90 % of public authorities and 75 % of companies in Spain already use free software, according to the latest figures released by the National Statistics Institute.

The government of the Province of Bizkaia in the west part of Spain's Basque Country, awarded a grant to ELSE (Asociacion de Empresas de Software Libre de Euskadi, in Spanish), the non-profit organisation representing free software companies of the Basque Country, it was announced on 6 September 2011.

The government of the Province of Bizkaia in the west part of Spain's Basque Country, awarded a grant to ELSE (Asociacion de Empresas de Software Libre de Euskadi, in Spanish), the non-profit organisation representing free software companies of the Basque Country, it was announced on 6 September 2011.

The provincial government (Diputación Foral de Bizkaia, in Spanish) allocated funding for the years 2011 and 2012; the aim is to give further boost to ELSE members' internationalisation strategies and facilitate their access to other markets.

Public administrations that want to work with groups of open source developers should follow the open source model as closely as possible, in order to preserve the agility and flexibility inherent in it, write two researchers from Cenatic, the Spanish government competency centre for open source.

A translation into English of their report was published this Monday on the web site of Cenatic's Observatory, at the same time as the Spanish version.

Public administrations that want to work with groups of open source developers should follow the open source model as closely as possible, in order to preserve the agility and flexibility inherent in it, write two researchers from Cenatic, the Spanish government competency centre for open source.

A translation into English of their report was published this Monday on the web site of Cenatic's Observatory, at the same time as the Spanish version.

Public administrations that want to work with groups of open source developers should follow the open source model as closely as possible, in order to preserve the agility and flexibility inherent in it, write two researchers from Cenatic, the Spanish government competency centre for open source.

The Regional Government of Castile-La Mancha, through its Centre of Excellence for Free Software (Centro de Excelencia de Software Libre de Castilla-La Mancha - CELSCAM, in Spanish), holds the presidency of the open-source software (OSS) community MORFEO from 1 July to 30 September 2011.

The Regional Government of Castile-La Mancha, through its Centre of Excellence for Free Software (Centro de Excelencia de Software Libre de Castilla-La Mancha - CELSCAM, in Spanish), holds the presidency of the open-source software (OSS) community MORFEO from 1 July to 30 September 2011.

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The Regional Government of Castile-La Mancha, through its Centre of Excellence for Free Software (Centro de Excelencia de Software Libre de Castilla-La Mancha - CELSCAM, in Spanish), holds the presidency of the open-source software (OSS) community MORFEO from 1 July to 30 September 2011.

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The Capaware application is open source-based and it works as a simulator to forecast and manage forest fires.

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The Capaware application is open source-based and it works as a simulator to forecast and manage forest fires.

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The Capaware application is open source-based and it works as a simulator to forecast and manage forest fires.