Panel 12: Open Source for the Public Sector & Enterprise Applications

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  burger
  Nov. 14, 2009

  Open Source for the public sector

  1. Open Source is a natural fit for Public Sector - Paid by the people, owned by the people

  2. Cost-saving on the long run - A shared pool of software that can be reusued nationally and globally

  3. Open standards results in higher inter-operability of government institutions - locally and globally

  4. Decoupling from proprietary vendors results in faster improvements and spawns innovation and mitigates risk

  5. Localisation

  6. More flexibility with license models

  7. Open code results in more security

  8. Obstacles to FLOSS adoption in pubic sectors

     - Corruption

     - Locked into proprietary formats

     - Lack of understanding/knowledge from ministers, we need technocrats!

     - Lack of Open Source expertise in general could discourage large scale projects owners

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  burger
  Nov. 14, 2009

  Open source Enterprise applications

  1. State of Open Source for Enterprise applications

     - Growing, moved into maturation stage

     - Incredible amount of enterprise-level support available

  2. It's free! Well, kind of...

  3. Great opportunities for SMEs, top grade software at a customized price

  4. Get empowered by building-in house expertise for your key solutions

  5. Why not switch your OS to Linux while you're at it?