Barriers to London's open source adoption

Posted Apr 29, 2010 6:40 UTC (Thu) by frazier (guest, #3060)
Parent article: Barriers to London's open source adoption

Looking at the PDF regarding having an open source CMS in 2006 was very interesting.

By 2009 open source technology and the inherent benefits were a credible and viable option. That was not the case in 2006 when the GLA received only one proposal to build on an open-source CMS out of hundreds.

It's not hard to believe that Plone in that era was a better system overall than the one they signed up for (see the timeline in the PDF... ...oh my!). The failure was they were looking for software plus professional services as a package and probably put out a request for proposals.