Government open source procurement toolkit helps dispel myths of OSS
The British government’s Cabinet Office has published an Open Source Procurement Toolkit as part of its ongoing information and communications strategy.
By: GovFresh
Posted: December 2, 2011
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The British government’s Cabinet Office has published an Open Source Procurement Toolkit as part of its ongoing information and communications strategy.
From the site:
The purpose of this toolkit is to ensure that there is a level playing field for open source and proprietary software and that some of the myths associated with open source are dispelled.
Links:
- All about Open Source v1 (pdf, 490kb)
- All about Open Source v1 0 (odf, 121kb)
- ICT Advice Note - Procurement of Open Source (pdf, 169kb)
- ICT Advice Note - Procurement of Open Source (odf, 37kb)
- Open Source Options v1.0 (pdf, 581kb)
- Open Source Options v1.0 (odf, 125kb)
- Total Cost of Ownership - things to consider v1.0 (pdf, 124kb)
- Total Cost of Ownership - things to consider v1.0 (odf, 198kb)
- PPN Open Source (pdf, 122kb)
- PPN Open Source (odf, 14kb)