I really wish the government would just tell us the amount wasted on licenses

[RecQuery]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-14765545 (Can Whitehall open up to Open Source?)

Also on a side note, FOI requests need to be tightened to stop them using the 'too expensive' excuse when it's clearly not.

[weezer 316]

This is an absolute shambles!!

Why they persist with spending a fortune on Windows is probably the biggest mystery. Munich Local govt moved to Linux several years ago, apparently alongside a personal visit from Steve Ballmer no less to try and convince them to stick with MS and offered licenses at next to no cost!

They could hire a couple of engineers and custom build a distro to suit exactly what they need if they so wanted.

Aside from pulling in Enterprise level databases and the support they require from the likes of Oracle, I cant see any reason to not go open source!

[Trajan]

My good god , they even use mcafee, are they totally stupid, imagine paying money for that garbage, now i know government departments are a waste of space.
microsoft = pooh.

[oldmarine]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-14765545 (Can Whitehall open up to Open Source?)

Also on a side note, FOI requests need to be tightened to stop them using the 'too expensive' excuse when it's clearly not.
Don't expect any level of government in any country to tell you the amount of money they waste. Politicians don't want that to be known.

[ducati]

Perhaps they don't want their software designed by hippys :lol:

[oldmarine]

Perhaps they don't want their software designed by hippys :lol:

That also. [lol]