Open Source Observatory (OSOR)

The 'Bundesamt für Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik' (BSI, the German Federal Office for Information Security) qualifies ownCloud as a modern, internet-based successor to the proprietary server software that traditionally provided file and messaging functionality to organisations and workgroups.

Amtega, Galicia's agency for technological modernisation, has published the Abalar educational system as open source. The software was developed for the Abalar project that aims to integrate ICT into the educational practice in the Spanish region of Galicia.

The European Parliament calls upon the Commission for the systematic replacement of proprietary software by auditable and verifiable open-source software in all the EU institutions, and for the introduction of a mandatory open-source-selection criterion in all future ICT procurement procedures.

The European Space Agency (ESA) has implemented a private cloud infrastructure to offer IT services to its user communities. The datacentre in Frascati, Italy, is already operational, while a second datacentre in Darmstadt, Germany, has just been completed.