[Gllug] London councils and Unix/Linux

[Chris Bell]

On Wed 09 Jan, Darran D. Rimron-Molloy wrote:
> 
> >    I am trying to persuade my local council (Ealing) to look at Linux. I
> > know that other councils are already doing this, so has there been any
> > coordinated attempt to share information among the local authorities?
> 
> About 7 years ago - my memory on time is trusty - I put in the firewall and
> web-server for South Glamorgan TEC, a subsiduary of South Glamorgan County
> Counsil.
> 
> So I can't see why there should be a problem....
> 
> 	-Darran
> 
   If the only use for Linux was in the provision of firewalls or simple
word processing I don't think there would be a problem, but I suspect that
there could be red tape or other specialist requirements which might benefit
from shared resources. I understand that, for example, the NHS has only just
started to realise that the rest of the world has the benefit of shared Open
Source medical records software. It would be very sad if every government
institution was to set up its own mutually incompatible software to do the
same jobs.

-- 
Chris Bell


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