Re:Australian government likely to standardise on Drupal
by jacques_chester on Saturday May 10, 2014 @09:31AM
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It has been my experience that nobody takes AGIMO seriously.
They do a lot of research, produce a lot of reports, publish a lot of "standards", and then everyone else just ignores them and stumbles on with whatever they were doing before.
The people who are already married to some solution will remain married to their solution; they will successfully argue for exemptions.
Those who are determined to use something else will use political capital to get another exemption.
Those who are forced to make the switch will make the switch, but the old system will probably hang around for a long time, more than doubling the overall cost due to double-entry and errors.
Some will make the transition, it will fail, then transition back.
In the end the government standard will be taken up by a handful of sites, AGIMO or its heirs and successors will declare total success, the Minister will have been rotated to something else or kicked out at an election and nobody will give two hoots.
Welcome to public sector computing! It's like enterprise, except even crazier.
They do a lot of research, produce a lot of reports, publish a lot of "standards", and then everyone else just ignores them and stumbles on with whatever they were doing before.
The people who are already married to some solution will remain married to their solution; they will successfully argue for exemptions.
Those who are determined to use something else will use political capital to get another exemption.
Those who are forced to make the switch will make the switch, but the old system will probably hang around for a long time, more than doubling the overall cost due to double-entry and errors.
Some will make the transition, it will fail, then transition back.
In the end the government standard will be taken up by a handful of sites, AGIMO or its heirs and successors will declare total success, the Minister will have been rotated to something else or kicked out at an election and nobody will give two hoots.
Welcome to public sector computing! It's like enterprise, except even crazier.