From: Mustafa Akgul (akgul@Bilkent.EDU.TR)
Date: Sat 19 Nov 2005 - 12:01:45 EET
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Why governments really choose open source
Ingrid Marson
ZDNet UK
November 17, 2005, 16:40 GMT
The number of open source deployments by governments across the
world has accelerated over the last few years. To date at least
160 international local and national governments have deployed
open source software and over $2bn has been spent on the Linux
open source operating system, according to figures from Linux
vendor Red Hat.
The use of open source software varies widely between different
countries, for example, while the UK government continues to
strikes long-term multi-million pound deals with proprietary
giant Microsoft, the French are enthusiastically adopting open
source software in both national and local government agencies.
Outside the Western world, where cost becomes more of an issue,
it might be expected that open source software would be more
popular. While this is the case to some extent ? it's not that
clear cut. The Brazilian federal government is issuing policies
strongly in favour of open source, but other countries have
signed sweeping deals with Microsoft, such as the Eastern
European state of Macedonia.
Deciding what lies at the heart of some countries almost zealous
uptake of open source is not a simple as looking at the cold
hard costs ? politics, national security, anti-Americanism and
innovation all have a part to play.
Part1: Europe and the US philosophically divided on open source?
Some governments have embraced the potential of open source,
while others seem culturally opposed to the whole concept
Part 2: Developing markets and anti-Americanism
Outside of the US and Europe, cost is a big motivator for using
open source software ? but it's not the only one
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