[Osia-members] Australian Gov Drupal

[Aimee Maree]

Bob,

You missed the point I feel, it's not about competition etc etc it's about one distribution being chosen as the "gov CMS" which is the same as the old boys club who enabled Microsoft to propagate inside gov for so long.. 

So sorry but we go backwards if we I from one choice to one choice...  




Regards,

> On 30 Sep 2014, at 2:11 pm, Bob Birchall <bob at calyx.net.au> wrote:
> 
> The key to understanding this seems to be the last sentence on this page:  http://agov.com.au/about
> 
> My impression is that this is a commercial provider getting into a specific market with a product based on an open source project.  Others are free to get out there with competing offers.  Ensuring software is readily upgradable and there is no vendor lock-in might be attributes of a competing product someone may design.
> 
> In the end, the ultimate test is customer satisfaction.
> 
> Bob Birchall
> CALYX
> 
>> On 30/09/14 13:07, Aimee Maree wrote:
>> It concerns me to think that the government would standardise on a distribution of Drupal... as a CMS aficionado it concerns me that one solution would be chosen and other open source CMS which might be a lot better then other matches are not looked into. Also the concern is updates because it is a proprietary flavour of Drupal it means upgrades like Drupal8 etc will be dependent upon previous next getting the distro and custom modules upgraded etc... We fought for years to get Open Source as an acceptable choice and looked at in tenders and now it seems this objective has gone too far the other way aka removing choice and selection again.
>> 
>> 
>>> On 30 Sep 2014, at 1:02 pm, Daniel J Jitnah <djitnah at greenwareit.com.au> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Might be of interest to many who have not seen it before!
>>> 
>>> 
>>> http://agov.com.au/about
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Cheers
>>> Daniel.
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