All too often people adopt the most ineffective strategy - management by equal pain. And you almost always have limited resources (such as your budget) and a limited degree of freedom in which to act.
The Open Source Software for Oregon Act would mandate that any state government agency consider open source software for all new software acquisitions and make purchasing decisions based on a "value-for-money basis".
Sun's per-citizen pricing likely will appeal to some countries "simply because it vastly simplifies their purchasing decisions" but the company will need to show that the advantages, such as support, make its software a better option than freely...
In the late 90s, when companies had cash to spare, CIOs and their ilk were put in charge of the day-to-day managing of tech purchasing. While external consultants and those in the know within a company still play their part in determining how and...
We need to adopt standards in IT because otherwise things do not work together. Conversely we also need to allow for the excess costs that may result from the inability to adopt new competing technologies, the difficulties of dealing with monopoly...
But for the final build we would like to the generally available version of OES - if that is the strategy we want to adopt," said Gunning. Centrelink's Gunning said the investigation and evaluation process will not be quick and the final decisions...