Or maybe they just expect every state government (or worse, individual local municipalities) to roll their own personal cloud. Like have everybody set up a NextCloud server and just hope shit doesn’t fall over.
You’ve never worked for the federal government have you? They just don’t have the expertise to setup something like that, at least not at most agencies.
The people exist in the govt to make this happen, I assure you.
We’re all over the place.
THAT SAID there is distinct value in paying for a service and being provided guarantees by the vendor.
It would be tremendous cost to switch over to FOSS systems from the ecosystem that currently exists and unfortunately it’s difficult to get buy-in from anyone on either side of the aisle to approve projects on this scale.
Or maybe they just expect every state government (or worse, individual local municipalities) to roll their own personal cloud. Like have everybody set up a NextCloud server and just hope shit doesn’t fall over.
Yea, I would prefer that, a state founded agency which has the order to set up FOSS workspaces.
The tech is already here, all it needs is courage to ditch mega tech coorp.
Everything government must be transparent, in my opinion
You’ve never worked for the federal government have you? They just don’t have the expertise to setup something like that, at least not at most agencies.
The people exist in the govt to make this happen, I assure you.
We’re all over the place.
THAT SAID there is distinct value in paying for a service and being provided guarantees by the vendor.
It would be tremendous cost to switch over to FOSS systems from the ecosystem that currently exists and unfortunately it’s difficult to get buy-in from anyone on either side of the aisle to approve projects on this scale.
They should request private sector to write offers for produce the software and state in the contract that sources have to be FOSS
https://news.itsfoss.com/switzerland-open-source/