Barclay Hambrook wrote:
Very interesting article. Maybe it is time we started some sort of lobbying to governments here, start with City of Calgary, then Province, then Ottawa.
At 09:07 PM 10/17/02 -0600, you wrote:
Not sure how many may have already read this article, but here it is
incase there are those who have not.
<snip>
UK Government will consider OSS solutions alongside proprietary ones in IT
procurements. Contracts will be awarded on a value for money basis;
UK Government will only use products for interoperability that support
open standards and specifications in all future IT developments;
UK Government will seek to avoid lock-in to proprietary IT products and
services;
UK Government will consider obtaining full rights to bespoke software code
or customisations of COTS (Commercial Off The Shelf) software it procures
wherever this achieves best value for money;
UK Government will explore further the possibilities of using OSS as the
default exploitation route for Government funded R&D software.
</snip>
To view the entire article visit:
http://www.shout99.com/contractors/showarticle.pl?id=12017&toparticle=12017
http://www.ogc.gov.uk/oss/OSS-policy.html
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I'm willing to help if there is anything I can do then lets talk.
