Given the UK government’s historic love of all software solutions proprietary, the news that Open Source solutions are now to be actively sought for and encouraged is significant indeed. Possible reasons for this volt-face are the collapse of more than a few high profile proprietary IT projects and a general need for belt-tightening as the current economic woes hit goverment revenue hard. Or maybe they just discovered Showmedo and realized the game was up 
More details from our very own BBC here.
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