Linux in government - better late than never
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Some people might be surprised that the government is only just waking up to the idea that open source is secure, stable and attractive to end users.
Better late than never, though.
And to be honest, Whitehall has been getting cannier about its software spending. Increasingly it has been aggregating demand across the public sector into mega-deals that get government agencies better value than their own bargaining power could have achieved.
Why force every part of government to to reinvent the wheel - or in this case rediscover the penguin?
But the public sector, in all its various forms, still spends tens of millions each year on proprietary software - including that from Microsoft.
And so the government should get a good return on the small amount of money it has spent on the Open Source Academy - especially if the OSA successfully builds a business case that shows local authorities how they can save money by moving off of their proprietary software packages.
Some people might be surprised that the government is only just waking up to the idea that open source is secure, stable and attractive to end users.
Better late than never, though.
And to be honest, Whitehall has been getting cannier about its software spending. Increasingly it has been aggregating demand across the public sector into mega-deals that get government agencies better value than their own bargaining power could have achieved.
Why force every part of government to to reinvent the wheel - or in this case rediscover the penguin?
But the public sector, in all its various forms, still spends tens of millions each year on proprietary software - including that from Microsoft.
And so the government should get a good return on the small amount of money it has spent on the Open Source Academy - especially if the OSA successfully builds a business case that shows local authorities how they can save money by moving off of their proprietary software packages.
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