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DK: Ministry leaves out open source savings in report on Police budget — published on Jun 11, 2010

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In a report requested by the parliament on the Police budget, the Danish ministry of Finance has left out recommendations by its consultants to switch to open source, which would result in savings of a 100 million kroner (about 13 million Euro), Danish newspapers report.

DK: Finance ministry: 'Open standards advance competition, lower cost' — published on May 20, 2010

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Denmark's ministry of Finance says that using open standards can increase competition and may help to decrease costs for the public sector. However, the ministry advises against moving to open standards without determining these cost benefits.

DK: Danish state administrations to use ODF — published on Jan 29, 2010

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The Danish parliament and the Danish minister for Science this morning agreed that the Danish state administrations should use open standards, including the Open Document Format (ODF), starting on 1 April 2011. A formal vote on the agreement is planned for next Tuesday.

DK: Majority in parliament for use of ODF and OOXML-strict — published on Nov 30, 2009

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A majority in the Danish parliament wants to approve the use of both Open Document Format (ODF) and the strict version of the OOXML for government documents. Minister of Science Helge Sander hesitates about the use of ODF, fearing it will lead to extra costs.

DK: Chair of Denmark's standards committee: 'Microsoft is lying' — published on Nov 17, 2009

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Mogens Kühn Pedersen, chair of the Danish Standards Committee, says Microsoft is lying when it says it will implement ISO OOXML in the next version of its suite of office applications.

DK: Rødovre municipality: OpenOffice will be cheaper to maintain — published on Nov 10, 2009

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"OpenOffice will be cheaper to maintain and will run better than Microsoft's proprietary alternative", expects Lars Roark, IT manager at the Danish municipality of Rødovre, according to reports in Danish media.

DK: Lyngby-Taarbæk moves schools to OpenOffice — published on Sep 30, 2009

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The administration of the Danish municipality of Lyngby-Taarbæk is installing OpenOffice on some 1700 school desktop PCs, the administration announced yesterday.

DK: Competition authority wants EC's take on office market competition — published on Sep 18, 2009

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The Danish Competition Authority wants to discuss with the European Commission how to enhance competition in the market for office software. It thinks the Danish public sector is too small to do this by itself.

Danish hospital: "Hassle free use of ODF across competing office suites" — published on Sep 01, 2009

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The Danish Århus University Hospital in Risskov, a long-time user of OpenOffice, says there are no problems at all exchanging ODF-based documents with other hospitals using Microsoft's proprietary Office 2003.

DK: Committee reconvenes for advise on document format — published on Aug 31, 2009

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A dissolved Danish committee of experts on document formats will reconvene once more, to consider a new report by the Danish competition authority, science minister Helge Sanders announced last week. The report was heavily criticised by an association of open source IT services companies.

DK: Danish competition authority advise using both ODF and OOXML — published on Aug 25, 2009

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Denmark's Competition Authority recommends that public administrations use office productivity software that support both the open document format ODF and Microsoft's alternative OOXML. "It will not improve competition to choose only one of these standards", the agency said in a statement published on 12 August.

DK: Municipality uses OpenOffice and saves a million DKK per year — published on Apr 22, 2009

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The Danish municipality of Gribskov has saved two million DKK, about 270,000 euro, over the past two years by switching the public administration and schools to OpenOffice, Michel van den Linden, responsible for IT in the municipality says in an interview with the Danish IT news site Computerworld.

DK: Telecom Agency offers open source desktop to staff — published on Mar 30, 2009

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The Danish National IT and Telecom Agency (ITST), part of the ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation, has started offering its staff the choice between a GNU/Linux based desktop or a proprietary desktop, announced Christian Lanng, head of the agency's IT and Infrastructure division, at its conference on open source and public administrations, held in Copenhagen on 19 March.

DK: Municipalities find it hard to adopt open source — published on Mar 03, 2009

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Danish municipalities find it difficult to make open source fit with their IT architecture, reported the Danish National IT and Telecom Agency last week. The majority of municipalities, 85 percent, says this is the biggest barrier for open source.

DK: Tønder elementary school to use open source — published on Dec 16, 2008

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All students and teachers at the elementary school in the municipality of Tønder were given a 1 Gbyte USB key pre-loaded with open source applications last week.

DK: Update to citizen portal built on Open Source — published on Oct 31, 2008

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The update to the Danish citizen portal 'borger.dk', is built with Open Source.

DK: Government publishes Open Source web-services tools — published on Sep 09, 2008

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The Danish government last week published Open Source tools that can help IT-service providers build applications that connect to government web-services.

DK: Committee appointed to evaluate impact of Open Standards — published on May 30, 2008

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The Danish government last Friday appointed five experts to evaluate the implementation of Open Standards in the country.

DK: Committee appointed to evaluate impact of Open Standards — published on May 27, 2008

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The Danish government last Friday appointed five experts to evaluate the implementation of Open Standards in the country.

DK: Complaint filed to EU over government's mandating OOXML — published on Feb 28, 2008

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The Danish Unix User Group (Dkuug) has filed a complaint with the European Commissioner for Competition, against Denmark's decision to use OOXML, Microsoft's standard for electronic documents. The group says the decision in June last year gives Microsoft a competitive advantage.