Red Hat vs. Switzerland:Official Complaint Against 40 Million Swiss Franc Contract
In February, the Swiss Federal Office for Construction and Logistics (Bundesamt für Bauten und Logistik, or BBL) sealed a deal with Microsoft for an estimated 35-million-dollars worth of licenses. Red Hat, along with 17 other Open Source enterprises, has filed an official complaint.
The awarding of the contract (worth about 40-million Swiss Francs) came to being without a published request for proposal, and the general public was made aware of the contract merely as a result of an official document entitled number 367,121 and through an article in the New Züricher Newspaper (as reported here). The contract is to encompass costs for standard desktop computers in addition to provisions for license and maintenance. The Swiss Construction and Logistics agency allegedly relinquished an official request for proposal because of the conclusion that no alternative to Microsoft products exist.
Red Hat is of a different opinion and referred to various Linux job engagements at Kanton Solothurn in the Zürich City Council and at various other state institutions that already employ Red Hat in an official press release. For this reason, Red Hat and 17 other enterprises have filed a suit against the Federal Office for Construction and Logistics with the federal administrative court to protest this unfair favoring of the closed-source enterprise, which in the process hinders open competition among software source code companies.
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