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Re:Corruption Perceptions Index 2013 by bliker on Thursday March 13, 2014 @11:32AM (#7392443)
If you are looking for more established companies I would suggest LEGO [1] and Danfoss [2]. You can find many positions on their sites that could be interesting for HN crowd.

[1] http://jobs.lego.com/en-us/searchpage

[2] http://jobs.danfoss.com/jobs/

And Denmark is a Microsoft-land as far I know. So keep that in mind.

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Re:Corruption Perceptions Index 2013 by workhere-io on Thursday March 13, 2014 @12:10PM (#7392724)
And Denmark is a Microsoft-land as far I know.

For startups, no. There's as large an open source scene here as anywhere else. Ruby on Rails was started by a Dane (David Heinemeier Hansson), as was PHP, C++, and the V8 JavaScript engine used in Node.

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Re:Corruption Perceptions Index 2013 by mercurial on Thursday March 13, 2014 @01:03PM (#7393083)
IIRC, RedHat has a presence in Copenhagen. On the other hand, from what I understand, the government policy about open source is best summarized as "the less the better".
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Re:Corruption Perceptions Index 2013 by workhere-io on Thursday March 13, 2014 @01:12PM (#7393142)
Not sure what you mean by that. The government is generally open to open source (http://digitaliser.dk/resource/2320552), but the two biggest providers of governmental web services don't really use open source. But why is that relevant if you want to seek employment in a Danish private company or start your own company in Denmark?
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Re:Corruption Perceptions Index 2013 by mercurial on Thursday March 13, 2014 @05:33PM (#7395245)
Well, it's just quite a different attitude from what you get in France, for instance, where, eg, the gendarmes use open source heavily. I'm not quite sure what you want to show with your report, by the way. That the governmental Danish IT department is considering open source as a way of saving cost? I did find this [1] though, which seems to back your position, but at the municipal level.

1: http://opensource.com/government/13/2/danish-municipalities-...

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Re:Corruption Perceptions Index 2013 by arethuza on Thursday March 13, 2014 @11:42AM (#7392524)
I think Microsoft does Dynamics NAV development in Denmark. NB NAV is their mid-range ERP application - nothing to do with Navigation!
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