Comments on: UK government starts to get open source http://www.edparsons.com/2009/02/uk-government-starts-to-get-open-source/ The blog of Ed Parsons, Geographer. Mon, 06 Feb 2012 22:11:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Anton http://www.edparsons.com/2009/02/uk-government-starts-to-get-open-source/#comment-1672 Anton Fri, 17 Apr 2009 11:28:31 +0000 http://www.edparsons.com/?p=714#comment-1672 in time of economy difficulties, everything that can optimize the expenses and increase the effectiveness is welcome! in time of economy difficulties, everything that can optimize the expenses and increase the effectiveness is welcome!

]]> By: Stuart Mitchell http://www.edparsons.com/2009/02/uk-government-starts-to-get-open-source/#comment-1671 Stuart Mitchell Wed, 25 Feb 2009 23:00:04 +0000 http://www.edparsons.com/?p=714#comment-1671 This makes increasing sense, particularly in the current economic climate. But looking even further afield, as we draw towards more federated services, we want to encourage specific government agencies to specialise in their areas, providing services to other agencies. To do this requires a shared common approach and the concept of re-use where possible. Outsourcing, to a large extent, flies in the face of that. A third party supplier may want to ensure that their own skills are deployed many times, even if only small configuration changes are needed, in order to create what would seem a 'total bespoke solution. Re-skilling in IT makes sense the a public sector where you want to realise a true service based, federated approach. This makes increasing sense, particularly in the current economic climate. But looking even further afield, as we draw towards more federated services, we want to encourage specific government agencies to specialise in their areas, providing services to other agencies.

To do this requires a shared common approach and the concept of re-use where possible. Outsourcing, to a large extent, flies in the face of that. A third party supplier may want to ensure that their own skills are deployed many times, even if only small configuration changes are needed, in order to create what would seem a ‘total bespoke solution.

Re-skilling in IT makes sense the a public sector where you want to realise a true service based, federated approach.

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