UK Government Reports Linux is 'Viable'

CProgrammer98 writes "The Beeb is reporting that The UK Office of Government Commerce has published their final results following trials on the use of OSS and especially Linux and they conclude that Linux is a viable option for government use. From their summary: 'The report shows that Open Source software is rapidly maturing, offers significant potential benefits to government and should be actively considered alongside proprietary alternatives. It concludes that decisions should be based on a holistic assessment of future needs, taking into account total cost of ownership, with proper consideration of both proprietary and open source solutions.'"

Comments

The Queen

[danormsby]

So will the Queen moves back to Linux now?

Her son is a Solaris person.

Re:The Queen

[Anonymous Coward]

Yes, I'm sure Charlie took time out from his chin-augmentation therapy to personally say 'Netcraft confirms it... BSD is dying'

Re:The Queen

[Anonymous Coward]

First the dodo died, then Dodi died, then Di died, then Dando died... Now is a bad time to be Dido!

Cool, please inform the Royal Navy

[philbert26]

Windows for warships is scary.

Re:Cool, please inform the Royal Navy

[mikael]

Don't worry - we'll sell them off to our allies, like we did with our submarines.

Re:Cool, please inform the Royal Navy

[zaktheduck]

This submarine has committed an illegal operation and will now fire all its Trident nuclear missiles.

Scary.

Re:Cool, please inform the Royal Navy

[david.given]

Don't worry - we'll sell them off to our allies, like we did with our submarines.

British arms dealing --- making the world a safer place through incompetence!

Re:Cool, please inform the Royal Navy

[Anonymous Coward]

You see, a submarine is much like a beautiful women..

Re:Comparing Windows with Linux and UNIX

[Gherald]

See also Groklaw's coverage of the Ballmer email

Linux efficiency

[Anonymous Coward]

I never realised linux had reached a level of maturity that would mean that it is inefficient enough for the gov to even consider using it.

This just in:

[Thud457]

The Nigerian government reports that *BSD is still defunct!

In other news ..

[RealProgrammer]

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- film at 11

At last.

[MartinG]

I think I will start using linux now. I am very reassured by this.

The UK govermnent has always been second to none in their execution and understanding of IT projects. They are get things right first time and are consistently under budget and finish early.

I trust nobody more to speak with authority on issues like this.

BWAHAHAHAAA!!!!!

The UK GOVERNMENT!! says LINUX IS VIABLE!!!! HAHAHA!!!!

Vatican reports: "Gravity is 'plausible'"

[gelfling]

In a stunning admission that post Ptolemaic science may in fact be an acceptable realm of study, the Vatican announced today that it is entirely plausible that gravity in fact, exists. This reverses nearly 2000 years of Christian theology which until now had answered such questions with "God says, case closed, now go home and make more Catholics."

Re:Interesting file formats...

[julesh]

The question is: why bother releasing in .DOC when there's an RTF right above it? Hmm..

The RTF doesn't contain the metadata. We can't tell who edited it and for how long, and there won't be any embarassing edits to display in the revision history. Obviously they have to release the .DOC file as well, otherwise we wouldn't be getting our money's worth. :)

Viable indeed

[cdavies]

For example, if their websever were using OSS, doubtless I'd be able to RTFA rather than getting 500 internal server error.

Re:Software patents ...

[Anne Thwacks]

UK govenment might realise that allowing software patents in the EU is a bad idea, and vote against it ..

No, this is the UK Government If they realise its a bad idea, they vote for it.