EUopen. As reported earlier, a study commissioned by EU Commission suggest ways to implement an open source strategy in European eGovernment. An article in Open – an independent, controlled-circulation, weekly, electronic magazine written to help IT professionals acquire and justify the ROI for Open Source products and services in the enterprise – analyzes the EU policy background that has made the study a reality and argues that the strategic decision by the EU Commission to bet on open source software as the choice for software to be used in the public administration of EU members will prove to be the tipping point for success of the open source software model.