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About Netherlands
The Netherlands (Dutch: Nl-Nederland.ogg|Nederland, ˈne:dərlɑnt) is the European part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, which consists of the Netherlands, the Netherlands Antilles and Aruba in the Caribbean. The Netherlands is a constitutional monarchy, located in Western Europe. It is bordered by the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east.
The Netherlands is often called Holland. This is formally incorrect as North and South Holland in the western Netherlands are only two of the country's twelve provinces. As a matter of fact, also many Dutch people colloquially call their country Holland, being well aware of the widespread use of this name. For more on this and other naming issues see terminology of the Netherlands.
The Netherlands is a geographically low-lying and densely populated country. It is popularly known for its traditional windmills, tulips, cheese, clogs (wooden shoes), delftware and gouda pottery, for its bicycles, its dikes and surge barriers, and, on the other hand, traditional values and civil virtues such as its classic social tolerance. But primarily, the Netherlands is a modern, advanced and open society. An old parliamentary democracy, the country is more recently known for its rather liberal policies toward recreational drugs, prostitution, LGBT rights, abortion, and euthanasia. The Netherlands is also one of the most densely cabled countries in the world; its internet connection rate is 87.8%, the 2nd highest in the world.
The Netherlands has an international outlook; among other affiliations the country is a founding member of the European Union (EU), NATO, the OECD, and has signed the Kyoto protocol. Along with Belgium and Luxembourg, the Netherlands is one of three member nations of the Benelux economic union. The country is host to five international(ised) courts: the Permanent Court of Arbitration, the International Court of Justice, the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, the International Criminal Court and the Special Tribunal for Lebanon. All of these courts (except the Special Tribunal for Lebanon), as well as the EU's criminal intelligence agency (Europol), are situated in The Hague, which has led to the city being referred to as "the world's legal capital." -
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... NCCW represents more than 10,000 managed properties, and more than half of all building societies within the Netherlands rely on NCCW for their core business process management (BPM), software-as-a-service (SAAS), infra... (Read Full Article)
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...ion. DVS Enterprise for Windows Server 2012 is available today in the U.S., Canada, U.K., France, Germany and Netherlands via direct and channel partners from less than $300 per seat² for remote desktop sessions. Quotes ... (Read Full Article)
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Dell Expands Cloud Client Computing Solutions for VMware View
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...ilable in Europe Dell Desktop as a Service (DaaS) is now available in the United Kingdom, France, Germany and Netherlands - from Dell's data center in Slough, UK which boasts nearly continuous uptime and application avai... (Read Full Article)
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...e for Workforce Scheduling within the Professional and Public Services sector. “Several customers in both the Netherlands and Belgium are using Ortec’s Workforce Scheduling as SaaS,” he said, adding: “Next to that, Ortec... (Read Full Article)
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Forrester Finds Half of World's Population Will Be Online by 2017
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.... "In some countries—mostly developed economies, such as the U.S., the U.K., Japan, Germany, Sweden, and the Netherlands—Internet penetration as a percent of the overall population is very high; more than 80 percent of ... (Read Full Article)
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93% Of Organizations To Provide Flexible Work Environments By 2013
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Kindle Touch Gets New Software Ahead of Global Launch
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