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UK Government ditches Microsoft's Cloud in favour of Open Source?
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| Obviously, I would want our 'National Cloud' (not that I want any Cloud at
| all thanks -I prefer owning my own data) to use Open Standards and Open
| Source technology; e.g. Nimbus, Eucalyptus et al. I would like the debate to
| start before we read the announcement about what they bought from whom. It
| would be a disaster for Open Source software if the National Cloud was based
| on proprietary technology.
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http://www.computerworlduk.com/community/blogs/index.cfm?entryid=2432&blogid=17
Reportedly they choose Google over monopoly abuser Microsoft.
Open Source for America: A resource for the Gov2.0 CTO
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| With this post Iâd like to tell you a bit more about the coalition Open
| Source for America and why I believe it is so important for our collective
| future. I would also like to encourage you to join this coalition yourself.
| Whether you represent industry, academia, non-profit organizations or are an
| individual technologist this coalition needs your help and support.
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http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/tech-manager/?p=1804
Recent:
Why can't local government and open source be friends?
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| Nobody seems to have stood up in a meeting and said: "You know, there's lots
| of very good open source content management systems (CMS) out there - there's
| one called Wordpress which is free and eminently customisable." This is
| peculiar, as Wordpress was available (and as solid as any CMS) in 2005, runs
| on MySQL and PHP (which are both free products used by some of the largest
| companies in the world, such as airlines and Yahoo). And there are pots of
| programmers around with MySQL and PHP skills.
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/aug/07/local-government-open-source-birmingham-website-costs
Open Source for Britain?
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| There's no doubt that the state of open source in government is even more
| parlous here than in the US, and so the need for such an organisation is even
| more pressing. But I wonder whether there's quite the critical mass here: are
| there enough companies basing their business around open source to fund such
| an organisation? And, even more critically, could they come up with a better
| name than Open Source for Britain?
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http://www.computerworlduk.com/toolbox/open-source/blogs/index.cfm?entryid=2376&blogid=14
UK Still Lags At Open Source
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| The UK is still a laggard at open source, even though the recession has
| increased pressure for its adoption, according to speakers at a London
| conference.
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| "I could go to Mali, and Mali would probably have a better adoption of open
| source than the UK," said Matt Asay, marketing vice president at Alfresco and
| open source blogger at CNet. "The UK tends to be a laggard compared to just
| about every other country on the planet."
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| The UK government's decision to promote open source in public sector IT won
| kudos, but was behind countries like the Netherlands, which has had a strong
| public sector IT policy for two years now, according to Jan Wildeboer, open
| source evangelist at Red Hat.
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http://www.eweekeurope.co.uk/news/uk-still-lags-at-open-source-1147
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