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Italian Ministry of Justice Adopts Red Hat Solutions

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| Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), the world’s leading provider of open source solutions,
| today announced that the Italian Ministry of Justice has selected Red Hat
| Enterprise Linux as the platform for its web-based Civil Justice
| applications, including those used for general cognizance, for civil
| execution and for the offices of the Small Claims courts.
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http://www.istockanalyst.com/article...nistry-of.html

Also new:

Open source tour of Europe: Austria

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| That was the good news. The bad news was that “this considerable activity
| does however not mirror in the activity in the Austrian public sector. There
| are only very small projects going on.� Times change, and Austria is now home
| to some of the most celebrated public sector open source projects.
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http://blogs.the451group.com/opensou...urope-austria/

Open source tour of Europe: Switzerland

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| More recently it was revealed that the Swiss canton (region) of Solothurn
| would complete the migration of 2,000 desktops to Debian by the end of the
| year, while the desktops used by 70,000 students and 7,000 teachers in Geneva
| are in the process of moving to Ubuntu and OpenOffice.org.
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http://blogs.the451group.com/opensou...e-switzerland/


Recent:

Commission to MEP: We are able to accept and generate ODF

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| An assistent of Italian MEP Marco Cappato (ALDE) contacted us with the news
| that an answer to a parliament question has arrived.
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http://www.digistan.org/forum/t-6311...d-generate-odf


Italian TV talks about Ubuntu

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| In this video an Italian TV program, NeaPòlis, talks about ubuntu as a very
| stable, high performance and easy to install operative system.
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http://www.fsdaily.com/Community/Ita...s_about_Ubuntu


Telecom Italia Rejects Microsoft IPTV

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| For Microsoft, Telecom Italia's decision is clearly a blow.
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http://www.lightreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=148327


Plone: Official launch of PloneGov in Italy

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| The Chamber of Commerce of Ferrara, the first PloneGov Italian member,
| invites 100 representatives from the public sector and open source experts to
| participate to the official launch of PloneGov in Italy on September 16,
| 2008.
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http://www.zeapartners.org/articles/ferrara002


Linux reaches the Italian Parliament

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| As reported by the Italian newspaper Repubblica on July 10th, 2007, a plan
| suggested by the left deputies Pietro Folena and Franco Grillini to migrate
| all the computers of the Parliament from Windows to Linux was approved by the
| Chamber. Â*
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| The migration will affect about 3500 boxes of the Chamber, both desktops and
| servers, and each Deputy/Party may also ask to migrate his/its (private)
| computers to the Free System. Â*
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http://3v1n0.tuxfamily.org/blog/linu...oves-to-linux/


Linux certification comes to Italy

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| A non-profit organization devoted to Linux training and certification has
| established an affiliate organization in Italy.
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http://www.linux-watch.com/news/NS7246199440.html


Free software in free elections

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| A new initiative promoted by the italian association for free software for
| the next italian political elections (provided that they will actually take
| place…). The initiative consists in asking the candidates to sign a letter
| where they engage themselves, in case they will be elected, to promote the
| use of free software through their political activity.
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http://www.palmerini.org/2008/04/06/...ree-elections/
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