As mentioned in a previous post, ForumPA - the greatest Italian event of and about Public Administration – asked me to chair the only open source conference taking place in the event.
Italian and international speakers provided the audience with an insight into how to effectively deploy open source software in a significant way.
The OSOR Case Studies section this month covers Grosseto’s OpenPortalGuard eID system. The case study tells the story about an Italian case of excellence, started in 2003 when the Italian government decided to introduce eID cards. Grosseto, to acquire an eID-based access control system for its ICT infrastructure, applied a rigorous open source strategy, aiming to cut implementation and operational costs.
Is it a sustainable choice for small public administrations?
That was very informative and well written. Mentioned below is an excerpt of an article on Open source software:
“Open source has today become a necessity for most businesses. It is estimated that 99 percent of all companies using software use atleast one open source component. The business value added by open source products makes them inevitable for every company. In addition to software, open source has today expanded its tentacles to many areas from open text books to open drug discovery and is fast spreading to other areas……to read more please visit http://www.sinapseblog.com/2010/10/open-source-business-reality.html“