-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1
Microsoft to offer discounts to public sector
,----[ Quote ]
| Microsoft has signed a deal with Buying Solutions, the UK government's
| public-sector procurement agency, in which the software company has agreed to
| offer its highest level of discount to all public-sector organisations in the
| country.
|
| [...]
|
| Mark Taylor, chief executive of the Open Source Consortium, told ZDNet UK on
| Thursday that the figure of £75m was only a "notional saving" because "the
| values that Microsoft attribute to their software [are] obvious nonsense".
|
| "No-one has been able to [find out] what is actually being spent by the
| government on software licences," Taylor, who also heads up the open-source
| services company Sirius, added. "It's nonsense giving a notional saving
| without revealing what the actual cost is."
|
| Taylor also criticised the government's open-source policy document,
| saying: "It's not an action plan because an action plan has specific actions,
| a deadline and someone responsible for achieving them." He said that "even a
| mild move to free software in the UK public sector would save £600m a year".
`----
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/0,1000000121,39649690,00.htm
Recent:
Tories consider IT contract cap
,----[ Quote ]
| Instead of awarding long-term contracts to large IT companies they could open
| up the procurement process to smaller firms using "open source" software.
`----
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7853086.stm
Tories Back Open Source Software...They Say
,----[ Quote ]
| Fine words butter no cyber-parsnips, of course, and I'll believe all this
| when I see it. Still, it's a start, and it would be good to see Labour
| finally admitting that its megalomaniacal, monolithic computing projects are
| failures, and adopting the decentralised, distributed approach the Tories are
| advocating here.
`----
http://www.computerworlduk.com/community/blogs/index.cfm?entryid=1791&blogid=14
Tories consider open source and limit on size of government IT projects
,----[ Quote ]
| Shadow chancellor George Osbourne is considering a report that recommends
| putting a £100m spending cap on government IT contracts and opening up
| procurement to small firms using open source software.
`----
http://www.computerworlduk.com/toolbox/open-source/open-source-business/news/index.cfm?newsid=13011
UK Councils to explore Open Source benefits
,----[ Quote ]
| - First-ever UK conference on open source software in local government
| announced - As new US Govt looks at open source, UK called upon to wake up to
| opportunity
`----
http://www.linuxpr.com/releases/11144.html
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux)
iEYEARECAAYFAkoHdkkACgkQU4xAY3RXLo4eXACfSfjxoNPowWW1SMbP+QTUOsmN
p10Anin0MZpWMDnpBk3O28f+bUAEsBj3
=jnSF
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
|
|
