6 Amendments of Amelia ANDERSDOTTER related to 2013/2195(DEC)
Amendment 407 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 212 a (new)
Paragraph 212 a (new)
212a. Calls on the European Commission to explore open source, well-audited solutions for e-mail and calendaring, including end-user softwares; reminds the Commission that also other parts of the stack not normally visible to end-users such as firewalls, web servers etc. can be considered from an open source, secure perspective if a public tender relies on functional specifications rather than brand-name products;
Amendment 408 #
Motion for a resolution
Heading 13 a (new)
Heading 13 a (new)
IT policies
Amendment 409 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 213 a (new)
Paragraph 213 a (new)
213a. Is concerned with the situation of effective captivity of the Union institutions with specific software-vendors; deplores that the Commission despite this realization has made no steps in 2012 towards preparing open, public tenders for ICT, based on transparent criteria and functional specifications rather than brand-names;
Amendment 410 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 213 b (new)
Paragraph 213 b (new)
213b. Recalls that the size of the SACHA II contract, and the full set of specific brand name products defined therein, was so large that only a very small number of contractors (two) could participate in the open, public tender; urges the Commission to prepare smaller open, public tenders to enable more actors to participate in such procurement and with a larger diversity of offers;
Amendment 411 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 213 c (new)
Paragraph 213 c (new)
213c. Suggests that the Commission invests in more in-house corporate ICT expertise in order to ensure that coordination and preparation of such projects does not become dependent only on external vendors; takes note of the fact that on-going consolidation projects between the different institutional systems can make it more difficult for the Commission to switch from one vendor to a different vendor, if the Commission does not ensure that document and database formats are based on open, interoperable standards;
Amendment 412 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 213 d (new)
Paragraph 213 d (new)
213d. Urges the Commission to ensure that any consolidation endeavours in the ICT architecture goes towards well- accepted, open standards that are used by multiple vendors and which can be implemented by open source software; recalls that it is easier to ensure that on- premise e-mail storage is not accessed by foreign interests, because of its geographical location;