Schools hosting their sensitive data in public clouds, especially ones controlled by US tech giants, may not be a good choice. Not only can the technology be lax in terms of security and privacy, it is also crippling innovation in… Continue Reading
Walmart have set an example to the retail sector with a significant export of Open Source code to supplement the 140 projects already developed by their technical team in the open. Whilst transferring the Walmart.com retail platform to React and… Continue Reading
OpenUK is the co-host and sponsor with the BCS Open Source Specialist Group of the annual Open for Business conference. This is our annual festival of open source in the business environment which takes place on Monday 5th September in… Continue Reading
The UK has benefited from the 2012 Open Standards policy which was formally reviewed in 2015, and the guidance toward selecting Open Source, as described in the official UK government IT strategy, which states “where appropriate Open Source solutions and… Continue Reading
I am writing on behalf of the Open Source Consortium (the UK Open Source Industry Association) in response to the post on behalf of the Department for Culture, Media & Sport, The Rt Hon Matt Hancock MP, Ed Vaizey MP… Continue Reading
Last autumn, the OSC was co-host with the BCS Open Source Specialist Group of Open for Business as part of the Wuthering Bytes festival. This was a one day conference to help those wanting to start their own open source… Continue Reading
On Friday 8th January, the Department for Education (DfE) approved an Open Systems IT Management (OSIM) Level 2 course to be eligible for 16-19 Performance Points counting towards the school’s league table attainment. It is an area of skills shortage… Continue Reading
We’re grateful to “The Register” for drawing attention to the latest licensing information regarding (non) transferability of Microsoft Office licences. We think it’s worth reading in conjunction with: new versions of Microsoft Outlook won’t allow access to older format documents… Continue Reading
Last March we reported on the government’s reply to an MP’s question on Open Source Software and Open Standards. As we said then: it all hinges on what you mean by “wherever possible” and also that “wherever possible” includes “nowhere”… Continue Reading
David A Wheeler has developed an extensive evaluation guide to choosing open source software. His 2007 studyprovides quantitative data that open source software is a reasonable or even superior approach to using the proprietary competition.