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Tue, Jun 21st 5:13pm 2005: Linux
This morning I attended an orientation session for the federal eResearch Coordination Committee Reference Group, which was interesting in itself but afterwards I was standing around chatting to a rep from OSIA when we were approached by Jane Treadwell, the new Victorian State Government CIO.
She was very enthusiastic about the use of FOSS in government, and in particular told us about a situation which arose while in her previous position as Centerlink CIO when they had a problem implementing a certain system based on a proprietary solution. When they started running into difficulties they turned to the FOSS community for assistance and received over 1000 responses. She was obviously impressed by the supportive nature of the FOSS community and seemed very enthusiastic about use of FOSS where possible / appropriate.
We had a brief discussion about the inroads Linux is making into the government sector and she indicated that it was happening quite broadly, generally in situations where a migration had a good benefit/risk ratio. She said she'd seen many cases of low-risk migrations taking place and it would no doubt continue to make inroads.
Overall a very interesting and positive conversation.
This morning I attended an orientation session for the federal eResearch Coordination Committee Reference Group, which was interesting in itself but afterwards I was standing around chatting to a rep from OSIA when we were approached by Jane Treadwell, the new Victorian State Government CIO.
She was very enthusiastic about the use of FOSS in government, and in particular told us about a situation which arose while in her previous position as Centerlink CIO when they had a problem implementing a certain system based on a proprietary solution. When they started running into difficulties they turned to the FOSS community for assistance and received over 1000 responses. She was obviously impressed by the supportive nature of the FOSS community and seemed very enthusiastic about use of FOSS where possible / appropriate.
We had a brief discussion about the inroads Linux is making into the government sector and she indicated that it was happening quite broadly, generally in situations where a migration had a good benefit/risk ratio. She said she'd seen many cases of low-risk migrations taking place and it would no doubt continue to make inroads.
Overall a very interesting and positive conversation.
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