UK Government Embracing Open Source

August 31, 2011 / Melody Smith / Comments Off on UK Government Embracing Open Source

Embracing open source, the Cabinet Office of the Government of the United Kingdom has chosen a proprietary software system to implement its goal and fulfill the government’s election promise to eliminate bias against open source software.

This interesting piece of information was found on Public Sector IT in their article, “Cabinet Office builds open source strategy on proprietary software.” But many think the guidelines are set up in a way to produce failure.

Cabinet Office gave suppliers one week to prepare a bid for an asset register. The procurement is not the only accelerated portion of this project, according to the specifications a successful bidder had just one month to produce a system.

Despite these limitations, the contract was awarded to CDS. Its e-PIMS property asset system is mandated for use across government.

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Melody K. Smith has provided organizational, social media and digital communication services to a large non-profit for the past twenty years. Prior to that she championed employee engagement and communications in the healthcare field. She holds a Bachelors degree in Marketing. When not wrangling and writing TaxoDiary content for your reading pleasure, Melody writes fiction, rescues dogs and throws legendary dinner parties.