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Story: DfT shared-services plan under fire
Open Source only viable way to do shared-services
DfT should take a leaf out of Becta's book and start investigating Open Source.
Government IT has had a shoddy record under the present government. Way too much money spent for absurdly poor results. The main problem being the tenuous link between the way the Gov does IT and the real world.
If they spent even a couple of hours investigating how 'shared-services' is done in the real world, then even our Microsoft-obsessed Government would figure out that it's done with Open Source.
Google, SaaS and so on all depend upon Open Source as their core ingredient.
Until DfT, Socitm and Gordon Brown's Government lose their unhealthy love-affair with Microsoft, we will continue to have these repeated disasters, and we will continue to *waste* vast amounts of tax payers money. No wonder everyone is deserting Labour in droves and *both* main opposition parties are basing their IT cost-saving strategies on Open Source.
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