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> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>
>> Britian is a lost case and Gordon Brown helps it. Vista is again rejected
>> however.
>>
>> Edinburgh's Microsoft-based overhaul delivers ROI in 14 months
>>
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>> | The two-year overhaul was carried out by BT using Microsoft?s
>> | Infrastructure Optimisation Model and is designed to give the council a
>> | future-proof IT infrastructure, as part of the council?s ?Smart City
>> | Vision? for service improvement.
>
> Its future proof income gravy train for micoshaft corporation
> at the expense of the tax payer.
> I can bet that these companies and government agencies have
> got into bed and signed a multi-million deal which they can't cancel
> without illegally charging back the tax payers in fines!!!
> Lots of back handers would have been traded to get to
> this cosy gravy train situation going between them.
>
> Over taxation of the tax payer should always lead to revolt.
>
> The future has always been open source and most governments
> accept it and have moved to open source in a big way.
> Future proofing means open sourcing it with open transparent government.
The UK seems like a lost case, for now. The change will come from (and start
in) other countries such as France and Italy, whose government is moving to
GNU/Linux.
Based on what I hear from an open source consultancy here, Brown et al help
Microsoft shove the momma of all lockins (SharePoint and its appendage) into
UK business. This raises the exit barriers (from lockin).
The BBC, National Archives, and the British Library are in Microsoft's pocket
as well.
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