The French government just published a request for ICT service providers to offer support including Debian and Centos based Linux systems, Le Monde Informatique reports. The three-year contract is worth two million euro and involves 16 of the country's 22 ministries and the Court of Audit.

The French government just published a request for ICT service providers to offer support including Debian and Centos based Linux systems, Le Monde Informatique reports. The three-year contract is worth two million euro and involves 16 of the country's 22 ministries and the Court of Audit.

The request for support comprises 350 open source applications, used in may ICT areas. This list is five and a half pages long.

The French government just published a request for ICT service providers to offer support including Debian and Centos based Linux systems, Le Monde Informatique reports. The three-year contract is worth two million euro and involves 16 of the country's 22 ministries and the Court of Audit.

The request for support comprises 350 open source applications, used in may ICT areas. This list is five and a half pages long.

The government of the Ile-de-France region teamed up with The Document Foundation to provide a 'Software as a service' (SaaS) version of LibreOffice - the Foundation's free office suite - to a wide range of upper secondary education actors, it was announced at the LibreOffice Conference held in Paris on 12-15 October 2011.

The government of the Ile-de-France region teamed up with The Document Foundation to provide a 'Software as a service' (SaaS) version of LibreOffice - the Foundation's free office suite - to a wide range of upper secondary education actors, it was announced at the LibreOffice Conference held in Paris on 12-15 October 2011.

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The government of the Ile-de-France region teamed up with The Document Foundation to provide a 'Software as a service' (SaaS) version of LibreOffice - the Foundation's free office suite - to a wide range of upper secondary education actors, it was announced at the LibreOffice Conference held in Paris on 12-15 October 2011.

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In an opening speech to the fourth edition of Open World Forum (22-24 September 2011, Paris), the French Minister for Industry, Energy and the Digital Economy Eric Besson acknowledged the "decisive contribution" of open source software (OSS) to the Digital Revolution. On this occasion he presented the government's policy approach to OSS and open formats, an IT magazine reported.

In an opening speech to the fourth edition of Open World Forum (22-24 September 2011, Paris), the French Minister for Industry, Energy and the Digital Economy Eric Besson acknowledged the "decisive contribution" of open source software (OSS) to the Digital Revolution. On this occasion he presented the government's policy approach to OSS and open formats, an IT magazine reported.

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In an opening speech to the fourth edition of Open World Forum (22-24 September 2011, Paris), the French Minister for Industry, Energy and the Digital Economy Eric Besson acknowledged the "decisive contribution" of open source software (OSS) to the Digital Revolution. On this occasion he presented the government's policy approach to OSS and open formats, an IT magazine reported.

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In a ruling of 30 September 2011, the Council of State, France's highest administrative court, clarified the right of contracting authorities to require suppliers to use specific open source software in the context of public procurement.

In a ruling of 30 September 2011, the Council of State, France's highest administrative court, clarified the right of contracting authorities to require suppliers to use specific open source software in the context of public procurement.

In the case in point, a regional authority had launched a call for tenders for the "awarding of a service provision contract for the implementation, exploitation, maintenance and hosting of a service platform for an open source digital working environment - named Lilie - aimed at secondary schools".

In a ruling of 30 September 2011, the Council of State, France's highest administrative court, clarified the right of contracting authorities to require suppliers to use specific open source software in the context of public procurement.

In the case in point, a regional authority had launched a call for tenders for the "awarding of a service provision contract for the implementation, exploitation, maintenance and hosting of a service platform for an open source digital working environment - named Lilie - aimed at secondary schools".

Amendments to France's draft law on 'reinforcing consumers' rights, protection and information' have been proposed with the purpose of putting an end to bundled hardware/software sales, the French advocacy organisation for free software and open standards APRIL announced on 27 September 2011.

Amendments to France's draft law on 'reinforcing consumers' rights, protection and information' have been proposed with the purpose of putting an end to bundled hardware/software sales, the French advocacy organisation for free software and open standards APRIL announced on 27 September 2011.

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The French advocacy organisation for free software and open standards April welcomes the French Prime Minister’s call to ministers to ensure the widespread use of free and open formats in the Public Administration (PA). April emphasises that free software enables the effective use of such formats.