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Look What UKGovOSS Gives Us
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| None of this will come as a huge surprise to anyone that has been following
| this sector for a while. The fear of failure and lack of support from central
| government are familiar problems. But what is useful is the quantification of
| other aspects of open source use in local governments that this survey
| provides. Let's hope the UKGovOSS site thrives and is able to bring us
| updated surveys â maybe even ones that show some real progress in this
| frustrating area.
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http://www.computerworlduk.com/community/blogs/index.cfm?entryid=2427&blogid=14
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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