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> What's bad is that departments appear to be excessively pressured into open source, which is not a good idea. It's important to go for the best tool for the j
by DanI-S 14y ago
> What's bad is that departments appear to be excessively pressured into open source, which is not a good idea. It's important to go for the best tool for the job and the things you can manage the most effectively, which might not always be open source.
That wasn't the impression I got from the article:
“We believe open source isn't properly considered when we are doing IT. Our objective is not to have a target for open source in government – a year on year increase. Our objective is to best explore the opportunities out there. Sometimes that might be open source. At the moment, we believe we are missing out on the opportunities.”
Based on that quote, it sounds like they are taking a surprisingly well considered approach. Is this not the case in some departments?
- iuguy 14y agoI can only talk about my own experiences, but given the pushes for cuts in costs open source is now being touted around some places as being the way to go, regardless of best tool for the job. As I said, HMG is a very strange place and it's big too, so not everything will be the same, but I've seen a couple of projects in the past 12 months where people have come back and challenged the decision to go with things like Oracle DB versus MySQL and so on. Once you're getting accused of flagrant spending (worse than death in some bits of HMG) on licences, you tend to over-cut.