LWN: Comments on "Barriers to London's open source adoption"

GLA linked into TfL's systems

pukunui — Fri, 07 May 2010 02:11:44 +0000

Seems like this is a business-critical link, so I hope there's more than "a dedicated fibre-optic cable running between the two buildings".

I've no idea of the relevant geography, but please tell me there's at least two reasonably diverse links?

Barriers to London's open source adoption

pjdowner — Sun, 02 May 2010 12:59:29 +0000

Thanks for this article, as someone who lives in London it's great to read about open source adoption in the GLA.

Barriers to London's open source adoption

frazier — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 06:40:39 +0000

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.