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Gordon Henderson wrote: > > On Mon, 7 Dec 2009, Henry Bremridge wrote: > >> My suspicion is that public bodies do not want to switch to FLOSS for >> one of the following reasons: >> - Our contracts specify proprietary software. >> - The current system works (aka the devil we know is better that the >> devil we don't) >> - When we have looked at it, we have looked with a view to seeing how it >> will not work. We have not tried to think how we can make it work. >> - We do not know our current software will run on it. >> - We have data sharing agreements that run on proprietary models > > Call me cynical, but I'd add to that something along the lines that the > *huge* companies that currently tender and are awarded the contracts to > produce the current set of bespoke "national" software have large groups > within them who actively lobby the govt., etc. to tell them that their > way is best... > > If you or I go in to tender for something, then we'd get laughed away in > the breeze. Assuming we could even afford the entry fee. The tendering process can easily run into 7 figures. Consider that not every tender will be sucessful and the cost may well be 3-5 million pounds before anything to do with the task in question is involved.
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