U.K. gov't considers Sun in open source software push
Government begins trials to evaluate costs and usability of Sun's JDS and JES software
By Scarlet Pruitt, IDG News Service December 08, 2003
LONDON -- The U.K. government has signed a five-year agreement with Sun Microsystems Inc. to potentially offer the company's new Java Desktop System (JDS) and Java Enterprise System (JES) software to public sector agencies as part of an overall open source push.
The Office of Government Commerce (OGC) purchasing authority said Monday that it will soon begin trials of the software to evaluate costs and usability in the hopes of saving money on hardware and software upgrades. No definitive agreement has yet been made to purchase and deploy the software, however, as the OGC said that it is evaluating all of its options before making a final decision.
The government has already been performing similar trials with IBM Corp.'s open source server software, according to OGC spokesman Martin Day, and is particularly interested in an open source alternative for the desktop.
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