[Gllug] Dutch parliament mandates open source

[Alain Williams]

On Fri, Dec 14, 2007 at 02:32:11PM +0000, Peter Childs wrote:

> I have long since come to the conclusion that if you need a solution to a
> specialist problem you need to do it in-house. Because only the in-house
> developers can see the entire problem and therefore come up with the best
> solution.

+1
Especially when it comes to long term support. With an outsourced specialist
solution the team who built it are redeployed on other stuff. Requirements
of these specialist projects change - this leads to huge problems if no one
understands how it works.

There is a good argument for getting outside help in design/implementation
but only if the in house team work hand in hand with the external people.

With 'generic' stuff you can get external people.

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