[Cisl-comunidade] Australian government can't recruit fast enough for open source

[Andre Felipe Machado]

Olá,

The Australian government is seeing a lot more demand for open-source support, according to chief technology officer John Sheridan.

"So popular is Drupal in Canberra at the moment that we're starting to see challenges in getting appropriately qualified staff because they're in such high demand."

A brief search of the Australian government's tender website reveals that many different government agencies, including the Department of Finance and Deregulation, the Department of Climate Change, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, and the Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations have all awarded contracts for work on Drupal platforms.

Under current government policy, for projects over AU$80,000, government agencies are required to consider open-source software along with proprietary software, with decisions made based on what offers the most value for money. Sheridan said that in many cases, open source is better value to the government than proprietary software now that better support is available.

"The proprietary solutions require an increasing fees, require expensive support or maintenance costs, and often the more advanced or popular features — the ones that really make a business difference — require so much investment of time and were so hard to get people to do that in some cases, it is prohibitively expensive or impossible to get out of once you're in," he said.

"This change to open source has changed the way I think that we do business."


Governos no primeiro mundo estão migrando para open source por que estão percebendo os benefícios reais e não o "FUD" e "outras conversas".

Quem quer se reeleger ou ser reconduzido ao cargo, precisa apresentar resultados que possam ser divulgados na imprensa (nas páginas de Economia e Mercado).

Mas para o sucesso do software livre em instituições de governo, são necessários profissionais capacitados e um qualificado ecossistema de empresas de suporte técnico e treinamento, que possam atender os extensos requisitos de licitações e das negociações.

Como na Austrália também estão percebendo.
-- 
André Felipe Machado

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Em 26/08/2013 11:32:02, Olivier Hallot escreveu:
> O medo é o mais sincero dos endossos.
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> http://tinyurl.com/m757a5g
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> Em 21-08-2013 16:37, Eliane Domingos de Sousa escreveu:
> > Será que estamos mexendo no queijo deles?
> > 
> > http://goo.gl/cRnAOR



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