Open or Closed? New Report on Open Source in Local Government
To mark the launch of UKGovOSS, today we’re publishing our new report looking at the state of open source software activity in local government.
Open or Closed? is based on research we carried out late last year to examine the adoption, perceptions and experiences of open source in councils across the UK. Our thanks to the 168 local authority managers and staff who took part.
Some headlines from the survey:
- 64% believe their council needs to increase its use of open source software (27% agreeing strongly)
- Around half say their council will increase its open source use by 2011
- 370 local government open source deployments identified
- Software licensing costs represent 30-40% of some councils IT budgets
- Why do councils go open source? 75% put lower cost as #1 factor
- Office software is where open source will impact most in local government over the next three years
- 65% believe perceptions of open source being ‘too risky’ stops councils from using open source more widely.
That’s just a taster of the report, which has been kindly sponsored by Bull Information Systems and One Point Consulting. We hope this report is useful and welcome your comments on our findings.
Download a PDF copy of Open or Closed? here (5.5MB) or learn more about the report.
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Britanya Göçü Kolaylaştırıyor « Özgür Pars said:
[...] yerel yönetimlerin açık kaynak yazılımları kullanımı hakkında hazırlanan detaylı bir raporu yayınlamakla işe başladı. “Açık veya Kapalı?” başlıklı rapor, 370 yerel yönetim birimi, [...]
August 11th, 2009 at 3:37 am
Haber: Britanya Göçü Kolaylaştırıyor | Açıkkod.org said:
[...] yerel yönetimlerin açık kaynak yazılımları kullanımı hakkında hazırlanan detaylı bir raporu yayınlamakla işe başladı. “Açık veya Kapalı?” başlıklı rapor, 370 yerel [...]
August 11th, 2009 at 12:44 pm
lancep said:
http://www.cps.org.uk/cps_catalog/it’s%20ours.pdf has a few open source references and could be politically useful to quote next year.
November 19th, 2009 at 10:42 am
UK Gov’s ICT Strategy – Cloudy and in need of sunshine | Talkin' bout a revolution said:
[...] Government also expects to increase it’s use of open source software significantly over the coming years. Nevertheless, the use [...]
December 6th, 2009 at 7:17 am
Open Source Strategy Gaining Traction, Claims Minister | UKGovOSS - Open Source Government Community said:
[...] own research report, released in August 2009 and available here, identified 370 separate deployments of open source software in UK local government [...]
December 17th, 2009 at 1:18 pm
mjray said:
Why isn’t the Open or Closed report released under an free and open source software licence?
January 24th, 2010 at 8:30 pm
Ian Cuddy said:
Do you mean a Creative Commons Licence? (http://creativecommons.org/) That’s a very good point MJ & thanks for pointing that out. I noticed the site content is copyrighted too. I’ll work on updating this so that we move to a Creative Commons system.
January 25th, 2010 at 3:59 am