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Whitehall Debate on Public Procurement Policies
posted by mpawlo on Friday July 26, @06:57AM
from the open-source-in-government dept.
Open Source The UK Government is looking at open source solutions. Douglas Alexander, Cabinet Office Minister of State, said:

"This government is intent on securing the best value for money in its IT procurements by encouraging the development of a flourishing IT industry which supplies both proprietary and open source solutions to the public sector."


However, Brian White, MP of Labour states:

"One per cent is not meaningful. Following 11 September, we can't afford to be reliant on a single piece of proprietary software if we are to take security seriously."

Read complete story at VMUnet.

See also Open Code in Public Procurement.

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