Open Source Not Ready for Desktop, IBM Told UK Government

The UK government has a ‘level playing field’ policy for use of Open Source Software, but although it is supposed to be considering “OSS solutions alongside proprietary ones in IT procurements”, this does not seem to have produced much in the way of significant deployments or contracts. And who is to blame for this apparent lack of movement? A smoking pistol placed before a Parliamentary Committee last week seemed to implicate that well-known partisan of Open Source Software IBM.” TheRegister reports. And all this while the press is expecting IBM to give a talk at Desktop Linux Consortium’s conference on Monday about Linux on the desktop.

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