by Andrea Di Maio | December 1, 2011 | 5 Comments
I read an interesting post by Glyn Moody, who had just attended the South Tyrol Free Software Conference and makes an interesting parallel between open data and open source. Just as the success of free software led to the founding on companies based around that freely-available code, so I think we are about to see [...]
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by Andrea Di Maio | January 27, 2011 | 1 Comment
After their criticized statement about the adoption of OOXML as the preferred document format in the Common Operating Environment policy (see previous post), the Australian federal government decided to highlight their revised open source policy, issued in December 2010, where they take a neutral position vis-a-vis open source, by using verbiage such as: Australian Government [...]
Category: open source in government Tags: Australia, open source
by Andrea Di Maio | January 21, 2011 | 7 Comments
A few days ago I posted about the Common Operating Environment policy published by the Australian Federal Government to reduce complexity and diversity of their desktop infrastructure, and the limited success they had in gathering online comments about the draft strategy back in July 2010. It appears that reactions to the now final policy have [...]
Category: open source in government Tags: Australia, ODF OOXML
by Andrea Di Maio | January 19, 2011 | 12 Comments
A few days ago the Australian Government Information Management Office (AGIMO) published its Whole-of-Government Common Operating Environment Policy. This policy mostly aims at greater standardization across the desktop environments to help contain costs. This is certainly a worthwhile objective and, in all fairness, the policy provides a good balance between the need for standardization and [...]
Category: open source in government Tags: ODF OOXML, open government
by Andrea Di Maio | January 11, 2011 | 2 Comments
On January 7 the Office of Management and Budget issues a memo reminding US federal agencies of the importance of technology neutrality in procurement. The one-page memo reminds that […] policies are built around the use of merit-based requirements development and evaluation processes that promote procurement choices based on performance and value, and free of [...]
Category: cloud open source in government Tags: OMB, open source, procurement
by Andrea Di Maio | June 23, 2010 | 6 Comments
Over the last month or so there have been a couple of worthwhile events about the US Federal Government’s cloud computing activities. The first one has been the publication of an interesting report, authored by the federal CIO Vivek Kundra, on the State of Public Sector Cloud Computing. This is a compendium of what the [...]
Category: cloud open source in government Tags: cloud computing, open standards, US, Vivek Kundra
by Andrea Di Maio | February 4, 2010 | 2 Comments
Over the last couple of months I’ve found myself involved, both actively and passively, in several conversations that contained terms like “open” or “openness”. The adjective “open” was associated to nouns like “format”, “standard”, “source”, “government”, “data”, and so forth. Quite often the use and misuse of the term “open” leads to almost hatred discussions, [...]
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by Andrea Di Maio | July 29, 2009 | Comments Off
Just a few words to point to the Gartner News Analysis (accessible also to non-clients) that comments on the creation of Open Source for America by a group of vendors and universities.
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by Andrea Di Maio | June 26, 2009 | 2 Comments
Earlier today I had quite an interesting conversation with clients in a Tax & Revenues Department who were looking for whether they should regulate how their developers contribute back into open source communities. At the end of the conversation one client asked me whether we had any research showing if using open source has a [...]
Category: open source in government Tags: open source
by Andrea Di Maio | May 28, 2009 | 2 Comments
While discussions about the relevance of Linux as an alternative platform for client devices continue (and indeed it has established itself in several corporations and government agencies) two events from yesterday should serve as a reality check for all those who believe it should (and will) replace Windows. At an ASUS product showcase in Sydney, [...]
Category: open source in government Tags: Linux, open source, PC
