Open source could government millions
If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!
Software projects that are commissioned by the UK government have not had a very press, and rightly so. They have either not worked properly, went seriously over budget or in some case both! Which is why whenever a government department declares that they are going to bring in some new software to do a certain job, everyone expects it to fail or mess up and frequently it does. Yet the UK government spends more on software than any other country in Europe, over $12 billion per year.
So imaging that if the UK government or any other government come to think of it, decided to scrape their software plans, tore up the contracts and went open source! Everything would be so different, the government would save billions which could be spent on other more worthwhile projects and any problems could be easily and speedily sorted by the original coders or if they were not available someone new to the project. What a great experience that would be for a young up and coming programmer.
The fact is the government are already aware of the open source, because it was mentioned in a report some time ago as a viable alternative to paying for software, especially when it does not do the job. Its one thing paying over the top for something, but when it doesn’t work, well that just pushes the boundaries.
Source [New Statesman]
Discussion Area - Leave a Comment