ECIS joins the Open Document Format Alliance
The European Committee for Interoperable Systems (ECIS) has joined the Open Document Format Alliance (ODF Alliance). The ODF Alliance works globally to educate policymakers, IT administrators and the public on the benefits and opportunities of the OpenDocument Format, to help ensure that government information, records and documents are accessible across platforms and applications, even as […]
ECIS Calls for Halt to Anti-Competitive Microsoft Practices
Brussels, 22 February : The European Committee for Interoperable Systems, a broadbased information and communications technologies (ICT) industry association founded in 1989, today filed a complaint with the European Commission against a range of Microsoft business practices that threaten to deny enterprises and individual consumers real choice among competing software products. The ECIS complaint asks […]
Microsoft: last chance to comply with European commission anti-trust ruling
Brussels, 15 February : ECIS today confirmed its full support for the European Commission’s determination to compel Microsoft to comply with its Decision of March 2004. “The record to date is very clear. So far, Microsoft has left the Commission no choice but to pursue the prescribed process for non-compliance,” said Simon Awde, ECIS Chairman. […]
ECIS: Microsoft source code offer tries to duck competition concerns
As indicated by the European Commission on 23 December, Microsoft has to date failed to meet its obligations to provide information essential for developers wishing to develop complementary or competing products which interoperate with Microsoft’s dominant server and client PC operating systems. ECIS has taken note of Microsoft’s offer today to provide limited access to […]