Sunday, March 30, 2008

Nick Jonashospital 2010

Naples .. Linux ninth nothing

Naples - Why alter the sublime harmony of a government which is anchored in the software owner, with the chaotic variable of free software? It is difficult to find an answer to this question only if you are sitting in the City Council of Naples. The junta, despite an order of the day last February that required the testing of Linux and open source has rethought hours.

NoTux It speaks de ilMattino article appeared in recent days and resumed by gnuvox , recalling that the agenda stemmed from the belief of some members of the majority can save up to one million euro of software licenses. An order of the day City Council undertook the council "to prepare appropriate actions and proposals to access funds for investment support for innovation in local government, enabling the testing of open source software applications, to use the same for the digitization of the City of Naples. "

But things did not go as hoped. To the point that last summer, July 19, the commissioner with responsibility for telecommunications networks, Donata D'Abundo Rizzo, had a deal with Microsoft which provides a multi-year commitment, a charge for licenses and a million € the opportunity for employees of the City to use Microsoft software at home. A proposal that later became a resolution, signed more or less the entire City Council, "with the exception of the absent," notes the newspaper of Naples, namely Cardillo, Laudadio, Mola, Oddati, Rich and Valente. Among the promoters of the project is specifically mentioned Gianluca Giannelli, Director of Organizational Development, which, according to director of PD Francesco Nicodemus "was the United States to define some details of the cartel and that we will be back in the States, in particular Seattle, home of Microsoft.
The resolution is not liked by all directors: the same Nicodemus and his colleague Judge Rosario in August so have a question that asks the pace at which you intend to start the experimenting with the open code. D'Abundo - rebuild ilMattino - answered, recommending the purchase of proprietary software, and explains: "You have to consider the Council that it is a matter that needs to be understood and shared as a process of cultural and political, as well as technological. " And there's more: recently returned to the attack in the Committee Development and Innovation many advisors from all parties, that achieve the trial but not to the City Council in the Executive. Right in the Neapolitan daily

D'Abundo says the same now that the open source "is a proper training of personnel who will use the new programs, it is necessary to update the entire computer park of the municipality that uses a private code. It is not possible to implement the move to open source programs quickly. "

Open source on the board computer is therefore a" fact gradual. "D'Abundo talks about the choice of the Penguin as a" beginning of a journey that however, must be well thought out. "It reaffirms that the agreement with Microsoft for the purchase of software licenses," As administrator I have the task of caring for what is already there rather than thinking about what could be. "And he explains "I can not throw everything overboard when the municipal park computer using a private code. Caution should be exercised before introducing something that is not yet known. "And he insists:" We also have a portal, so we must bear in mind that users might have problems with open source. It would be a choice of the elite. "The Microsoft software at home employee wonders if it is a choice in view of telework . D'Abundo says:" No, not now. "

A reverse, that of the Neapolitan Government that the network just do not like . Among others, Alessandro Bottoni stresses, among other things, "even dropping Linux, what prevented the City of Naples to adopt OpenOffice? This suite of programs the office is completely free, open and standards-compliant, runs on Windows and is used by millions of people for years without having received any specific training ".
Source: Point-informatico.it

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