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While this makes complete sense I feel like I slept for 10 years and woke up in Looney Tunes universe where the Gov wants to sell you EC2 instances.
by dj_mc_merlin 5y ago
While this makes complete sense I feel like I slept for 10 years and woke up in Looney Tunes universe where the Gov wants to sell you EC2 instances.
- toyg 5y agoThey are not selling it to you, but "public sector services". It's effectively the national government telling the various bureaucracies "hey, we got this cool service over here, easy to use and probably cheaper than what you are doing - give it a spin maybe?" In more "Napoleonic" countries the State would just mandate adoption and you'd never know it, but in the UK the public sector is awfully balkanized, so there is a need for public marketing.
- gtsop 5y ago> awfully balkanized What does this phrase mean?
- igormilla 5y ago> Balkanization is the fragmentation of a larger region or state into smaller regions or states, which may be hostile or uncooperative with one another. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balkanization https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balkanization Applying this to a government you will have one where you have a lot of separate agencies that are hostile, uncooperative, and don't want to follow any unified standards.
- celticninja 5y agoWhich means it is not an accurate description as most agencies are not hostile to one another or uncooperative, its just that they are independent and have (sometimes) competing goals. They have no requirement to work together, but some are realising that there are benefits to doing so.
- toyg 5y agoYou can read that sentence in Sir Humphrey Appleby's voice for top comedic effect. Jim Hacker would have probably replied "So you're telling me they are not playing against each other, except when they are playing against each other...?"
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