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The European Union's interoperability page reports:
The council of the Swiss capital of Bern on 12 November ordered the IT department to end its dependence on proprietary software. The council halved the city's request for a six-year [license] contract and insisted on an exit plan. A majority of [councilors] wants the city to replace proprietary software by open source solutions such as Linux and LibreOffice.
The exit plan should be based on pilot projects that consider alternatives, the city council decided. With 53 of the total 67 votes, the council changed the city's desktop software plans. The [councilors] want applications to become independent from PC operating system or office productivity tools. And in late 2018, when desktop operating and office [licenses] expire, Bern has to publish an open call for tender, using vendor-neutral specifications.
"Basically, from now on, the IT department may only procure and implement solutions that are platform-independent", the [councilors] agreed on Thursday.
[...] In a statement on 13 November, the Swiss Parliamentary Group on Digital Sustainability welcomed the change in IT strategy of the capital. The group offered to help the city with its exit plan, pointing to documentation such as a checklist to help public administrations to procure open source software solutions.
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 15 2015, @12:19PM
nuclear power is considered "closed-source". Switzerland should also hurry up and liberate the electricity
market and allow all the pending solar roof-top applications to finally replace at least one of the
nuclear reactors ... and ofc power endless backoffice paper-shuffling bureaucracy.
I think everybody agrees, that the government doesn't want to work 24 hours but during the day and that
having to generate 10'000 year nuclear waste for day-to-day government work, which requires electricity, doesn't make sense ...
unless ofc we can somehow inscribe or map government data onto nuclear waste, which will be kept safe for 10'000 years ^_^