Will Cloud Computing kill Open Source initiative in the Government sector?

Before you read the rest of my psot, the answer is a resounding: “No”.

Gartner ponders about it as we continue to work with our Gov Sector customers to help them do Massive Technology Refresh with open source as well. The model that many Gov (full and semi-gov sectors) is to basically move towards the Shared Services Model where much of its open source initiatives may end up thriving in the end.

Open Source will only get stronger and I disagree with my Gartner con-colleague and hope that he’s also been doing some real-time market research and field analysis about it. The foundation of “Mixed Source”, something which I first proposed in my keynote last year at ProFoss is what will happen. Gartner obviously knows very well that it is open source exactly that will be reigning supreme when it comes to delivering Cost-Effective Clouds to a large consumer segment. Mixed Source will be used, reluctantly first, by the enterprise which will catch on soon by 2015.

Anyways I like to see Andrea’s post as a trigger for many customers that I speak to in the Gov sector here in The Netherlands to not forget the initiative that were started jointly and that are being very effective. Even enterprise customers in the Financial and Telco sector are considering “mixed-sourcing” where applicable to push the costs down.

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