Re:Government Open Source Office deal set to provide major s...
by chris_wot on Tuesday October 20, 2015 @07:54AM
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Things have improved remarkably :-) I was doing some dev work as an intern for Collabora for a few months, and during that time there were a whole range of performance and compatibility fixes to allow for interoperability between MS Office and LibreOffice.
However, what you are missing is that the UK government has its own cloud agreements called G-Cloud agreements, which are part of a larger G-Cloud Framework. [1]
Microsoft has in fact been ahead of the curve on this, having already gotten accredited to IL3 levels.[2] However, Collabora are already doing deals with the UK government, and many other firms, so if they are going to implement a cloud platform then they will need to have a good story around their own accreditation so they can be part of the UK government's Digital Marketplace.
I'm very impressed with the UK Government's attempts at breaking out of vendor lockin with their new platforms. It seems to me they've made things fairly easy, and they even host their accreditation questions for G-Cloud 6 in GitHub. [3]
However, what you are missing is that the UK government has its own cloud agreements called G-Cloud agreements, which are part of a larger G-Cloud Framework. [1]
Microsoft has in fact been ahead of the curve on this, having already gotten accredited to IL3 levels.[2] However, Collabora are already doing deals with the UK government, and many other firms, so if they are going to implement a cloud platform then they will need to have a good story around their own accreditation so they can be part of the UK government's Digital Marketplace.
I'm very impressed with the UK Government's attempts at breaking out of vendor lockin with their new platforms. It seems to me they've made things fairly easy, and they even host their accreditation questions for G-Cloud 6 in GitHub. [3]
1. https://www.digitalmarketplace.service.gov.uk/g-cloud/framew...
2. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/07/01/gcloud_rules_respect...
3. https://github.com/alphagov/supplier-submission-portal