Free ICT Manifesto publication
At the Sustainable leaders conference in Dublin we have launched the 2024 Manifesto with our Policy Recommendations!
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Free ICT Europe has become a full partner NW Interreg funded research project “Circular Economy for the Data Centre Industry” (CEDaCI) CEDaCI is a multi-disciplinary network that bring together actors and experts from all IT life cycle stages and sub-sectors directly and indirectly associated with the Data Centre Industry. Although the projects looks at water…
We are proud to have collaborated with Dan Shefet on producing a Paper that we hope will shape the software industry in Europe in the future. As Dan said about the obligations of enterprise software publishers in this press conference from the other week – “whatever it takes to maintain their own flawed product must…
The EU made a Decision in 2011 to break the monopoly of IBM on the secondary market of maintenance and support of IBM mainframes. During the last five years mainframe users who chose Independent Service Providers (ISP) as an alternative to IBM, have reaped the benefit of millions of euro in costs savings as is…
Product Liability Directive: an example of how important it is to voice our position in Brussels It has pushed forward by Free ICT Europe that updates to clarify the status of software and data, but also address the fact that technological products always need to be updated over time. Adopted nearly 40 years ago, the…
News of a new Broadcom deal rarely arrives with great fanfare. The November 2023 VMWare acquisition provoked open worry online and in business circles, with many critics wondering whether the former Hewlett-Packard spinoff’s reputation would prove accurate — one of “milking” its cash cow purchases by cutting expenses and extracting revenue, often at the expense…
IMPORTANT:Action to list Networking Equipment & Software on ESPR (Ecodesign) – deadline May 12, 2023! Being part of the aftermarket industry we ask you all to respond! The new extended EU Eco-design for Sustainable Products (ESPR) aims to make products sold in the EU more sustainable. The scope of the ESPR list is expanded to…