[eccr] Europe to push for open source

> Europe to push for open source
> ======================
> The European Commission is placing open standards and open-source
> software at the centre of its efforts to promote interoperable
> e-government services with a new working paper introduced this month.
>
> The Commission argues in the report that open standards, and to an
> extent open source, are crucial to making new e-government services 
> work
> with each other and with enterprise systems. The paper, which will be
> used as a reference point for policy and decision-makers around Europe,
> is the latest document pushing forward the far-reaching eEurope
> initiative on e-government services.
>
> The document calls for 'open interfaces and specifications' for
> components of e-government services including 'open and non-proprietary
> document formats' and 'the means of communicating with supporting
> back-office processes'. It also notes that the eTEN program, which
> promotes trans-European e-services deployment, will ask for 'the use of
> open standards and where applicable, the use of open source' when
> funding projects.
>
> ZDNet - July 21, 2003
> http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104_2-5047543.html
>

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