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Despite Romanian community's fight against using Microsoft software in public administration, it seems a strong partnership exists between the Romanian government and Microsoft.
Recently, a few figures about this contract has been published by ComputerWorld. For Romanian readers, the original is here: http://www.computerworld.ro/?page=node&id=13973
Basically, a frame contract has been drafted in 2004 for lending 50,155 Microsoft licenses to Romanian administration, on a value of $54,567,465, payable until 2009. Since Romanian administration aquired new computers, another 39,385 licenses were needed, on a value of $26,172,156. This last amount is due to be paid until 2011.
We still hope in Free Software (free as in speech): GNU/Linux, OpenOffice.org, etc.
Details about how OOXML vote went in Romania are available at http://aranea.zuavra.net/index.php/97/ (English) and http://rsandu.myblog.ro (Romanian).
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