Lessons learned?
The British government has an unsatisfactory record to date with public sector ICT, despite spending more than any other European country on the technology. One problem is with the public sector's indiscriminate disregard for open-source software. This type of software, where the source code is re...
| Publicado en: | New Statesman Vol. 136; pp. 50 - 51 |
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New Statesman Ltd.
October 8 2007
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