Good idea, I'll have to have a look on have a look on my local Council's website as I remember seeing a list of all the FOI's that have been requested. If the one I need is not there, I'll have to put my own FOI in. Pete
> Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2013 08:31:17 +0100 > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] Has anybody seen this and what do you think...... > > Most, (if not all) councils outsource their IT to a 3rd party. This > outsourcing will be very fluffy around what technologies they expect > to be provided, but nearly all will state some kind of Technology > Refresh after X years. > > The Service Integrator (SI) I work for wouldn't even consider making > Linux part of the front-end refresh, so this will never be offered to > the customer. > > So, rather than lobbying your MP, local Council or Ward officials > (many of whom wouldn't know an OS if it bit them on the nose), maybe > the people to speak to are the SI's or Outsourced Service Delivery > managers? Or, better yet, the Non-Elected-Official who liaises between > the council and the SI? They will "own the relationship", and will be > in more of a position to suggest that "perhaps next time round you > could put together a cost model for rolling out a Gnome/Unity/KDE > desktop, as well as pricing for Windows, just to see what the > cost/value differences are?" Which, incidentally, might be able to be > FOI'd - just saying... > > Bear in mind that the focus at the moment is to move more services to > "The Cloud", whether that be something like Google (unlikely), > Rackspace (hmmm, slightly more possible), EC2 (in some cases), or an > SI's own "Local Cloud" (such as the one I'm working on at the moment), > and most of the integration to that will be using Citrix, not a web > browser, you might find it pretty hard to convince people. > > I'm not saying the situation is untenable, but just that maybe people > are focusing on the wrong areas, and not looking into how these things > get going. > -- > Jon "The Nice Guy" Spriggs > > > On 22 August 2013 15:39, Paul Sutton <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 31/07/13 20:42, Pete wrote: > >> I guess most if not everyone out there know that Governments use > >> Windows XP (Uk Gov't) and that it costs quite a huge amount to pay in > >> bulk licenses, including local councils. Does anyone know how much > >> these bulk licenses cost and how many the UK Gov't have? > >> > >> Well, onto the main reason I am posting - I have sent an email to my > >> local MP to look into using a Linux based OS instead of Windows as > >> they wont need to pay for licenses which will presumably save hundreds > >> of thousands. > >> > >> Why not send an email to your local MP or the MP that deals with the > >> IT or whoever it is that does. > >> > >> What's your thoughts on this? > > > > More to the point ask what the plan is once XP reaches end of life, in > > 2014 and suggest alternatives, but people are going to need training, > > support in its use, etc, who can provide that, who can provide tech > > support, etc, how much are canonicals packages on support. etc > > > > on this basis any pointers to people who can perhaps support local > > government in this may be helpful, > > > > Paul > > > > -- > > [email protected] > > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ > > -- > [email protected] > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
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