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)
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> | 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.
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> http://opensourceblog.itproportal.com/?p=195
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> Related:
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> | 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.
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> 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
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