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Story: Large public-sector Linux project flops

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A functional computer illiteracy?

It looks like they have not done a proper evaluation.

E.g. it says

"There were a range of problems with the open-source implementation ... including desktop interfaces and lack of support for removeable drives."

If someone can't even use simple desktop interfaces like KDE or GNOME then there could be a case of a computer illiteracy and such a person shouldn't be in IT management in the first place.

And indeed, the article admits:

" costs ... largely brought about because of a shortage of skills in open-source networking and the changes to IT processes that would result."

JNeuhoff

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