UK Gov. considering migration to open source ?

[henke54]

8. In terms of spending less - what about migrating the whole of government (the NHS, Education etc) from Microsoft products to Linux and open source software like Openoffice.

http://www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/spend_cha ... deas_2.htm

[vasa1]

If I remember rightly, UK was one of the countries that voted in favour of "multiple" standards instead of ODF. Maybe now that the penny has started pinching, they may think different.

[Robert Tucker]

Aren't these contributions from the general public which have included according to the Daily Mail: "Sterilise the poor and bring back the workhouse" ?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... -cuts.html

[vasa1]

Aren't these contributions from the general public which have included according to the Daily Mail: "Sterilise the poor and bring back the workhouse" ?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... -cuts.html

I'm sure The Sun will have something even more profound.

[Robert Tucker]

Just as long as they don't set up sweatshops with people having to write code to support Open Source software systems!

[JonM33]

8. In terms of spending less - what about migrating the whole of government (the NHS, Education etc) from Microsoft products to Linux and open source software like Openoffice.

http://www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/spend_cha ... deas_2.htm

Funny until you think of all the government employees that are IT support that have spent their entire careers supporting Microsoft products. They will all be out of jobs.

Still smiling?

[Robert Tucker]

Candidates for transferable skills courses!?

[JonM33]

Candidates for transferable skills courses!?

Well, I don't think that OpenOffice would be hard to support coming from a Microsoft background but Linux? That would require a lot of additional training if they didn't outright cut their jobs.

[henke54]

Funny until you think of all the government employees that are IT support that have spent their entire careers supporting Microsoft products. They will all be out of jobs.

Still smiling?

Maybe if they (UK Gov.) read this : http://www.zdnet.co.uk/news/security/20 ... -40089481/
they (UK Gov.) change their minds ? ...

[Robert Tucker]

Meanwhile the UK is having trouble getting access to some military source code:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint_Comb ... y_transfer