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> On Thu, 26 Oct 2006 20:16:36 +0100
> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> 10 questions to Michael Sparks, OS Guru at BBC (Part 1)
>>
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>> | I'm currently a Senior Research Engineer who works at the BBC, a
>> | computer science graduate from Manchester University and have spent
>> | my professional career prior to the BBC working on scaling large
>> | scale network systems. I'm a software engineer, and I'm interested
>> | in improving the tools we use for creating systems both large
>> | and small
>> |
>> | [...]
>> |
>> | 3. To what extent is Open Source used in the BBC? Have you for
>> | example migrated to Open Office?
>> |
>> | This is perhaps the wrong question, but I'll answer as I see it
>> | directly. It's used on the server side fairly heavily (in addition
>> | to a number of proprietary tools), and on the desktop side
>> | proprietary software dominates almost exclusively. In BBC Research,
>> | open source is heavily used as a development platform however, and
>> | this drives the use of tools like OpenOffice that support open
>> | data formats.
>> `----
>>
>> http://opensourceblog.itproportal.com/?p=195
>>
>> Related:
>>
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>> | Reliability and the ability to change code, rather than cost, are
>> | driving the increased use of Linux at the BBC, according to Damion
>> | Yates, team leader of internet operations at BBC Technology.
>> |
>> | Speaking ahead of his presentation at the Linux User and Developer
>> Expo | in London tomorrow, Yates told Computer Weekly that Linux is
>> being used | on several projects even though there is no overall BBC
>> strategy to | support open source technology.
>> `----
>>
>> http://www.computerweekly.com/articles/article.asp?liArticleID=129999&liArticleTypeID=1&liCategoryID=1&liChannelID=126&liFlavourID=1&sSearch=&nPage=1
>>
>> (link broken at time of writing)
>
> was also in linux format last month
>
This is indicative of the kind of dichotomy many major organisations are
facing at the moment. Their forward-looking departments are deploying
floss at a tremendous rate, for all the good reasons we know, but the
really senior folk, typically technically weak, are having dinner with
senior people from proprietary vendors desperate to create "strategic
partnerships" in order to hold up their lock-in models.
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| Mark Kent -- mark at ellandroad dot demon dot co dot uk |
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