[ILUG-BOM] FYI VIVEK Kundra : CIO in US

[jitendra]

Kundra on Open Source (
http://radar.oreilly.com/2009/03/vivek-kundra-federal-cio-in-hi.html )

*VK:* I think you look at open source, as a technology, whether it's
mediawiki, for example... with Wikipedia what we did in the District of
Columbia was that we had a wikipedia solution that allowed every single
employee to collaborate and have access to information. * I think there is
also a place for specialized software, you look at the FAA or if you are
looking at DHS, there are some mission critical systems that you can't apply
an open source solution to.* We need to have a very pragmatic, balanced
approach in terms of software. I would argue that, whether it is open source
or proprietary software one of the biggest ticket items when it comes to
information technology on that $71 billion dollars is the money the federal
government spends on contracts and contracts that, frankly, some of them
haven't performed very well and there have not been consequences. And, we
need to become serious and tough on those contractors that are not going to
deliver. Eliminating those contracts and making sure that we have
consultants and contractors that are adding value to the federal government.


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jitendra