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Open Source System Integrator Forum
Bill McCluggage – Deputy HM Government CIO &Director of ICT Strategy and PolicyQamar Yunus – Government Open Source LeadDaniel Stacey – Government Open Source Advisor
21st February 2011
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Agenda
1. Welcome and Introductions - Chair
2. Purpose of Meeting - DS
3. ICT Strategy – Open Source in Government – B McC
4. Government Actions around Open Source – QY/DS
5. Challenges faced by System Integrators in Open Source - All
6. Opportunities for System Integrators around Open Source – GT/All
7. Next steps - Chair
8. Questions
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2. Purpose of Meeting
To communicate Government strategy on Open Source How we propose to action it How it will impact System Integrators What help do we need from System Integrators Understand Challenges faced by System Integrators
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3. Where does open source fit in the 3. Where does open source fit in the Government’s ICT Strategy?Government’s ICT Strategy?
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Coalition Programme for Government
““We will create a level playing field for open-We will create a level playing field for open-
source software and enable large ICT source software and enable large ICT
projects to be split into smaller £100m projects to be split into smaller £100m
components.”components.”
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““We will take steps to open up government We will take steps to open up government
procurement and reduce costs; and we will procurement and reduce costs; and we will
publish government ICT contracts online.”publish government ICT contracts online.”
Coalition Programme for Government
"The days of the mega IT contracts are over, "The days of the mega IT contracts are over,
we will need you to rethink the way you we will need you to rethink the way you
approach projects, making them smaller, off approach projects, making them smaller, off
the shelf and open source where possible.”the shelf and open source where possible.”
Francis Maude MP, Minister for the Cabinet Office, 2nd December 2010
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So where is Government likely to spend on Open Source?
So UK Gov ICT Spend of £16.9bn may go...
Data Centres £3.2 bn
Desktop £1.85 bn
Data Network £1.69 bn
Voice Network £1.01 bn
Help Desk £1.18 bn
Application Dev £3.04 bn
Application Support £3.04 bn
Finance, Man, Admin £1.85 bn
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Open Source:
Update the procurement process
Educate the user
Expect System Integrators to supply
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We expect to see:
Evaluated Open Source solutions in all future proposals
Open standards & interoperability as key components
Open source solution & services normal practice
Cheaper and more effective solutions
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4. Government Actions around Open Source
Why Open Source ?
The Coalition Programme for Government Interoperability via compliance with open standards Improve Integration and Customisation Departmental autonomy over information Compliance with Open Standards Freedom from vendor lock in Reduce licence costs and potential total cost of ownership Allows government to be best placed to adopt new
technologies in the future Save money
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4. Government Actions around Open Source
Does it save money ?
The examples cover saving in the desktop, web presence and back end infrastructure.
The Bristol City – Saving 50% ESR Technology – Saving 78% Yell – Saving 95% The National Digital Resource Bank – Saving 98% Killby and Gayford – Saving 98%
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4. Government Actions around Open Source
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System Integrator (SI)
Forum
Open Source Implementation Group (OSIG)
Government Open Source
Advisory Panel
Government ICT Strategy
Government Action Plan
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Innovation Hub - SMEs, entrepreneurs, individuals
Innovation Hub - SMEs, entrepreneurs, individuals
Development teams
Development teams Skunkworks PortfolioSkunkworks Portfolio
Departments
Departments
2. Business Requirement
1. Social challenge
Skunkworks solution
CollaborationCIVIL SOCIETY
GOVERNMENT
Skunkworks Operating Model
New, more agile
solutions
New, more agile
solutions
3. New and improved Public
Services
4. New and more agile processes
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5. Challenges For System Integrators
“We deliver what the Customer asks for” Current customer knowledge levels/expectations Skills/re-education of staff Risk management processes will need to be reviewed Perceived issues re legal/licensing Procurement processes Understanding of Open Source, inc
‒ Cultural‒ Technical‒ Legal
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6. Opportunities for System Integrators
Supports modular approach‒ increase granularity‒ clearer break points in stage contracts
Re-use of solutions Reduce dependency on proprietary suppliers for products
and support skills Expansion of skills pool (inc via SMEs) Greater scaling capability Responsiveness Leading to........
‒ Greater Project success‒ Lowering of costs
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7. What happens next:Open source options
Server Database Middleware Application Server Cloud Business Application Network Web Desktop Office Specialist Applications
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Sector Software Consider as Alternative to
Comments Real World Use
Server Operating Systems
• RedHat Enterprise Linux
• Canonical Ubuntu Server
• CentOs Linux
• Microsoft Windows Server
• UNIX - Sun Solaris, IBM AIX, HP UX
• General purpose Unix-like operating system with proven higher performance, availability and security record.
• London Stock Exchange has moved to a Linux based infrastructure
• FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD
• Microsoft Windows Server
• UNIX - Sun Solaris, IBM AIX, HP UX
• General purpose Unix-like operating system with proven higher performance, availability and security record.
• Particular record in internet and network services.
• telecoms, broadband, web servers
Virtualisation • Linux KVM • VMWare Server
• sss
• Virtualbox • VMWare Workstation, Parallels for desktop
Remote Desktop Management
• VNC
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Open Source Software - Assessment Model
We are looking for software to be :‒ Proven‒ Support‒ Security‒ Software Development‒ IT Integrator‒ Legal ‒ License
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IT Integrator or Supplier
• Integrator understands open source software and its ecosystem.
• Integrator understands open source software and its ecosystem only enough to make occasional use of software, primarily imitating other integrators.
• Integrator does not understand open source software and its ecosystem. and has no intention to use it strategically.
• Integrator’s legal and commercial units understand open source software and are fully engaged with it business as usual.
• Integrator’s legal and commercial units partially understand open source software and only engage with it tactically and by exception.
• Integrator’s legal and commercial units do not understand or engage with open source software.
• Open source software plays a primary tier role in the integrator’s strategic vision and approach to IT solutions and services.
• Integrator maintains permanent internal expertise for strategic open source software.
• Open source software does not play a primary tier role in the integrator’s strategic vision and approach to IT solutions and services. It only plays a secondary role where it is used tactically or by exception.
• Integrator’s internal expertise is incidental. Integrator buys in open source expertise on a temporary and case by case basis.
• Open source plays no part in the integrator’s strategic vision or approach to IT solutions.
• Integrator has no internal expertise in open source software, and does not engage temporary expertise.
• Integrator has established channels to support and maintenance for open source software.
• Integrator also has partnerships with design and integration specialists for specific open source software.
• Integrator engages channels to support and maintenance for open source software on a case by case basis, and often by exception.
• Integrator only forms partnerships with design and integration specialists for specific open by exception.
• Integrator has no channels to open source support and maintenance.
• Integrator has no partnerships with open source software specialists.
• Integrator has proven successful experience of open source software, over a wide range of solutions and services, including mission critical.
• Integrator has some proven successful experience of open source software, over a limited set of solution and service types.
• Integrator has no proven experience of open source software as part of its solutions and services.
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7. Your help
System Integrators share with Cabinet Office :‒ Which Open Source software deployed‒ Where they have deployed it‒ List of perceived challenges
New Project – Evaluate Open source solutions Legacy systems - Evaluate opens source solutions at
opportunity
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Questions ?
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