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Spain pays 12 Million Euros to maintain Open Source website
By siliconindia
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Monday, 04 January 2010, 20:01 IST |
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Bangalore: In last couple of years open source has answered most of its critics by proving to be a successful business model for many companies. There is one more such example which proves that it is possible to earn money using open source. The Spanish government has awarded a 12 million Euro contract to Telefonica to maintain the Presidential website, a site that is built on OpenCMS, an open source content management system, according to ITWire.
The website of Spanish Presidency of the European Union which acts as a portal delivering information about the country and its government, news, media releases, cultural activities and more, has been built using OpenCMS. The site caters to international visitors by providing content in several major languages. Visitors may subscribe to RSS feeds for updates.
OpenCMS is a professional open source content management system (CMS) built on top of Java and XML. The company offers its client access to test drive its online demo before investing any time in downloading and installing it. It also provides a list of reference site who are using OpenCMS.
In the last two months the Ministry of the Spanish Presidency has awarded two dozen contracts related to its involvement in coming European Union summits, in total around 23 million Euros. Out of this, 12 million Euros has been awarded to Telefonica for "technical assistance and security" relating to the website. This price does not include translation for which an additional 147,900 Euros has been earmarked.
