The government wants 4% annual growth in spending on services financed from 2% budget growth. This miracle is not going to be easy and will not happen at all unless Whitehall ends its chronic failure to use market power to deliver sustainable savings in the massive bill the public sector pays for software. That means going open source.
And the supplier lock-in does more than keep costs high, it stifles innovation. Ten years ago the “browser wars” were big news in IT – with two proprietary solutions – Netscape Navigator and Internet…
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