Slightly off topic, but relevant in this discussion. I worked in IT in local and central government in the UK, all departments of which I was in would have com

Slightly off topic, but relevant in this discussion. I worked in IT in local and central government in the UK, all departments of which I was in would have completely ignored these guidelines for their own petty reasons of security, people skills, costs(!), supplier lock-ins etc Neither does this address bigger picture stuff such as supplier favouritism, lack of single systems across multiple councils (eg council taxes) open hostility to open source, total lack of fair tendering or the fact most IT spending is authorised by people who's only qualification is they studied history at the same college in Oxford as the CEO or go to the same golf club. I could name several examples of the above from the security services but would probably be immediately arrested because of that pile of steaming shit called `the official secrets act'