UK Goverment IT Chief Backs Open Source Suppliers

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday September 22, 2010 @03:51PM from the open-up dept.

Blacklaw writes "The UK government's deputy Chief Information Officer has outlined plans to hand public sector IT contracts over to small businesses and suppliers of open-source and cloud-based solutions in an attempt to balance the books. Speaking at the 360IT conference in London on Wednesday, Bill McCluggage also promised greater transparency over IT procurement, with tenders and contracts published online. Outlining a commitment to 'simplify, standardize and automate', McCluggage said the government would make it easier for open-source suppliers to compete for contracts, making the public sector less reliant on individual suppliers, or locked into proprietary systems."

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Re:Lets hope this brings an end ... by commodore64_love · 2010-09-23 01:04 · Score: 0, Flamebait

So why will the UK open source project succeed when the Switzerland(?) project failed? They tried to go open-source but now declared it didn't work out, and are going back to Windows 7 immediately
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