UK Government Information Technology (IT)
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Open Source Push in the UK 'Could Save Taxpayer Millions'
Matthew Sparkes | The Telegraph | January 30, 2014
The [UK] Government is investigating how open source software could be adopted to save tens of millions of pounds a year and make communication between departments easier. Since 2010 government departments have spent £200m on Microsoft Office alone, claimed Cabinet Office Minister Francis Maude in a speech yesterday.
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U.K. Cabinet Office Adopts ODF As Exclusive Standard For Sharable Documents
Andy Updegrove | The Standards Blog | July 24, 2014
The U.K. Cabinet Office accomplished today what the Commonwealth of Massachusetts set out (unsuccessfully) to achieve ten years ago: it formally required compliance with the Open Document Format (ODF) by software to be purchased in the future across all government bodies...
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