[Klug-general] Linux and Open Standards in Public Government Organisations

[J D Freeman]

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On Fri, Sep 04, 2009 at 09:42:25AM +0100, J Subs wrote:
> I contracted at the Ministry of Justice for a few months in 2008. All 
> Microsoft systems, running Windows NT and IE5.5, apart from a dozen 
> people! PHP and MySQL weren't allowed on the intranet for security 
> reasons (?!?!) so all the pages were hand-coded. Now _that_ wasn't a 
> waste of taxpayer's money...
> 
> I gave a few lunchtime lectures on portableapps.com, theopendisc.com, 
> Firefox add-ons and the like, and there were a few enlightened souls there.
> 
> To sum it up in one word: inertia.

I can fully understand not allowing PHP for security reasons...

Not allowing opensource however, would be bad. 

J
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