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UK government gets really serious about open source

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Web Webster
Web Webster
Feb 22, 2011

[ Thanks to E5Rebel
for this link. ]

“Monday 21st February 2011 saw the first ‘Open Source
System Integrators Forum’ held by the Cabinet Office and I’d like
to share a few modest bits of news with you all…

“Firstly, the occurrence of the event itself is news. The
Cabinet Office assembled all the big System Integrators who make up
the majority of UK Government and Public Sector IT spending,
currently running between £16 billion to £21 billion
every year.

“I was there too, not due to the proportion of this spend which
comes Sirius’ way I hasten to add, but simply to provide some Open
Source expertise.”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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