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California Should use Open Source and VoIP

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the well-shouldn't-everyone dept.

Albanach writes "ZDNet is reporting that a report from independent auditors and experts has recommended that the State of California adopts open source software and Voice over IP as part of a series of moves that, the report says, could save the state $32 billion over five years. Additionally, they recommend the State establishes a centralised technology division to handle all their IT needs reducing redundancy and generating further savings."

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  1. Dupe by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Open Source in California Government

  2. Governmental Divison by nurb432 · · Score: 5, Informative

    Normally state government has a lot of redundancy. Most departments/divisions/agencies ( depending on they are called in California ) are nearly autonomous units, from the director right down to the mail room people.

    There are reasons FOR this, since a lot of departments are forbidden by law to share resources ( funding sources ) and information ( privacy ).

    Is this stupid? Perhaps in many cases, ( not all but many ) but its the way things often work in any governmental situation.

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  3. Re:VOIP - does anyone use it that likes it? by Anml4ixoye · · Score: 4, Informative

    My former workplace, a county government, is in the process of switching everyone over to VoIP. A lot of the employees are in one building and so sit on the gigabit backbone throughout the building. They also employed traffic shapers to make sure that VoIP traffic had priority.

    Saying all that, the quality was excellent. It was rare to have any glitches, and at the time we had close to a thousand of the employees on it. I even had a Cisco softphone on my laptop that I used to make calls while connected over VPN from another country that was crystal clear.

    I think, if you have the bandwidth and the sysadmins for it, it is a wonderful technology. But I wouldn't use it at home unless I had a dedicated pipe coming in.

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