UK Gov gores open source

Boh Yap

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Feb 4, 2012, 2:44:58 PM2/4/12

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hi all,

Following up on UK gov policies on Opeb Source for Edu, they now use
it for the entire gov.

http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/The-open-source-behind-gov-uk-revealed-1426513.html
they "..do, don't talk"

While our gov can't make up its own mind.... wait, its owned by
proprietary SW vendors!

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Hasanuddin Abu Bakar

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Feb 4, 2012, 10:15:05 PM2/4/12

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m$ owned Malaysia gov.

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hadri hilmi

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Feb 4, 2012, 10:33:47 PM2/4/12

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It looks very clean https://www.gov.uk/

Oh my gov http://www.malaysia.gov.my

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Hasanuddin Abu Bakar

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Feb 4, 2012, 10:37:38 PM2/4/12

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Haha..website gov Malaysia masih pakai format 90'! .. classic.. we
need UX consultant ASAP!

Adam Othman

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Feb 4, 2012, 10:41:37 PM2/4/12

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Hi,

What open source CMS they're using eh? Or is it custom?

Thanks

./alak.cc

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Hasan Abu Bakar

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Feb 4, 2012, 10:56:23 PM2/4/12

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The developer's site using Wordpress http://digital.cabinetoffice.gov.uk
I am not sure about the gov sites. Could be custom codes. The true
adaptation by UK is the Open Government, not mainly Open Source
Software.

Abdul 'Azim Norazmi

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And also mobile compatible...

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Boh Yap

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Feb 5, 2012, 5:46:44 PM2/5/12

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what are they using???

c'mon... read the article!

Mostly Ruby, some Scala, mySQL and MongoDB - very up-to-date!

And its all OpenSource, besides being 'Open Gov.'!?

red1

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Bit slow from here to access M'sian gov.my. Must be due to heavy old grafix used. Can anyone propose to the PM's Office for the needed upgrade?
Greetings from São Paulo, Brazil.

sweemeng ng

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Feb 5, 2012, 9:18:39 PM2/5/12

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A lil observation I made, those that will do Govt websites(contractor or not) tend to not use technology like rails and mongodb, and scala.

In fact, outside the developer community here(which I say is really a small number), not many will use anything not .net or java or php and nosql. If a person were to choose a stack to use in a(any) software project for malaysia, chances is, rails and mongodb will not be a choice, it is hard to hire and hard to fire, despite the advantages technically.

Those that will use it, tend to be geeks, which will not work in this type of project anyway, for reason that we know but shall not talk about. And we are the minority of software developer in malaysia anyway, the one that love anything that is not java or .net or nosql

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Boh Yap

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Feb 6, 2012, 8:01:41 AM2/6/12

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hi,

Swee Meng, r u saying that the ,net and Java groupies use nosql? I think not.

What that report also says is that the UK gov is not 'afraid' to use
new technologies, that offer real advantages vs the 'safe' staples
like ,net, java that perpetuate their own interests, not the clients.
Also its to 'feed' the hordes of ofifcially certified .net, java
engineers.

My opinion is, government SHOULD use "non-conventional" technology,
like Ruby, Scala, Python, no/new SQL (note: these are NOT 'bleeding
edge' technologies but have been well proven in industry, its just
that its Open Source and NOT part of the commercial mainstream ). Why?
because:

1. they offer real advantages over the conventional stuff, especially
'speed of development'... the real techies knows this, so theres not
need to talk about this here...

2. the Government SHOULD act as the catalyst to upgrade and guide the
industry, to meet the social economic goals. By using government IT
projects, to drive standards and adoption of technology. Something
which I doubt the local private sector would do, they want to play
'safe'.

3. finding human and technical resources, will be hard, leading to
See Mengs comments: "hard to hire and hard to fire". This is a
'chicken & egg' problem, perhaps the gov should solve this by
providing the 'egg', ie: by creating the demand for such
skills/resources and the market may follow by supplying them. Sure,
its not going to be easy, it will take more time, it may cost more.
(But the gov wastes a lots of money anyway... like the Natnl Feedlot
Project!, how many IT Projects would that have supported?).

By adopting more productive non-conventional technology using Gov IT
projects as the vehicle, the Gov can create a new, dynamic & globally
competitive SW development industry and meet social economic goals.
Thus the gov. can act as an agent for change, by boot-straping' and
vitalising the SW industry. Yes, changes are going to be a bit
difficult in the beginning, and there will be winners and losers.

The winners being a more competitive and dynamic SW industry with a
healthy divesified eco-system, instead of one dominated by a handful
of players.
I'm not advocating getting rid of Java, it has its place in big-iron
legacy projects. But when developing service orientated Web portals
and docuement management systems, there are better tools.

OF course to do so, the Gov requires enlightened and capable
leadership... rather than bureaucrats that take the easy way out and
listen to their vendors....

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sweemeng ng

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Feb 6, 2012, 8:10:08 AM2/6/12

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What I am saying that, the govt tend to NOT use the new technology, like most big organization in Malaysia.

And it is already pretty bad, that the policy maker don't have the knowledge, but having a vendor mentality is not helping in the adoption of technology in govt.