2 towards open platforms
At the OpenACS social, I spoke with a couple IT folks at Brandeis who have been making a strategic shift away from commercial software for a long time. They described with some joy the response they get from vendors when they tell them they do not have any windows servers in the organization. The conversation pretty much goes into sputtering mode for vendors who elect to sell non-cross platform Windows code, and end shortly thereafter.
I also spoke with a coder working in a Massachusett's environmental agency, and asked about the state's top-down shift to open solutions. He said that the state IT is too big to control centrally in many ways, so the shift to open source is more of a subtle, long term effort. The reference platforms that are chosen centrally and recommended to individual departments will now reflect the state's preference for open platforms. For instance, the state is no longer pushing Exchange as the reference e-mail platform, but I didn't find out what they're replacing it with.
I'm thinking that the list of reference platforms would be an interesting one to track down ...
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