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Government plans for US-style IT openness - by 2020
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| Savings worth another Â500m a year will
| come from the use of an integrated public
| service network by 2014, the strategy
| claims.
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http://www.computerweekly.com/blogs/tony_collins/2009/11/government-plans-for-us-style.html
NL: Procurement's preference for open source fails to attract vendors
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| The IT department also writes in the report
| that it has yet to begin its trials with a
| vendor independent desktop PC. It has
| temporarily halted the use of the open
| source web browser Firefox, tying this with
| the migration to OpenOffice that is
| currently being studied and piloted.
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http://www.osor.eu/news/nl-procurements-preference-for-open-source-fails-to-attract-vendors
Recent:
Becta urged to find middle way on interoperability standards
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| It said in a statement yesterday: âBecta agrees that the development of
| standards is key to the effective use of technology and this is central to
| our work. The report recognises the importance of these standards in
| supporting personalised learning, the Home Access agenda and encouraging the
| involvement of parents.â
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http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2008/11/06/becta_interoperability_standards/
Microsoft's interoperability dodge in UK schools
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| discounts only make it cheaper to fall into lock-in. The Open Source
| Consortium's president Mark Taylor says it well: "Schools can now choose
| between long-term software freedom or a short-term discount on the next
| lock-in play."
|
| Fortunately, groups like Becta, which brought the original complaint against
| Microsoft to the European Commission, are unlikely to fall asleep at the
| wheel.
|
| Microsoft will no doubt eventually be forced into offering interoperability
| alongside its discounts.
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http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-10043997-16.html
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