近日，一位到访澳大利亚的红帽高级执行官声称，目前在澳大利亚，很大一部分政府机构的CIO对开源应用部署还是心存疑虑，并不是政府信息部门没有足够的技术理解能力，主要是这些官员对Linux和开源软件及其社区还是存在着不理解。
A visiting Red Hat executive has said that wariness on the part of a
number of government CIOs over adopting open source is not a reflection
of Australia's tech savvy, but the result of a "lack of understanding"
of the software and its community.
After a study released earlier this month claimed that open source is
no longer a "cottage industry" in Australia, a group of CIOs from the
government's three largest agencies--the Department of Defense, the
Australian Tax Office and Centrelink--said they remained cautious over
adopting open source.
All three IT chiefs cited concerns over support for the software as
their reason for not adopting it more widely within their respective
departments.
"We can't have a product where we have a problem and we don't have
readily available support," said Department of Defense CIO Greg Farr.
However, a visiting Red Hat executive has today hit back at the claims
saying the Australian government's caution "mostly comes from a lack of
understanding of what open source actually is".
"We're not hearing those same concerns from mature markets now that
open source is far more prevalent than it was four or five years ago,"
said Craig Munzilla, vice president of Red Hat's middleware business,
JBoss.
"I actually think Australia as a whole is quite innovative and at the
vanguard," he said, adding that Australia accounts for five percent of
JBoss downloads worldwide, "which is huge relative to the size of the
country".
According to Munzilla, companies and government departments tend to
"like the flexibility of open source", but in many cases see it as
unstable and volatile due to a perceived lack of support.
"I think it's from a lack of understanding of the model," he said,
saying that Red Hat is in discussions with a number of government
departments--which he would not name specifically--whose
representatives had not displayed the same level of reservation as CIOs
like Farr.
"We're engaged in a number of situations where we haven't heard that
comment yet, and this is both at state and federal level," he said.
The Red Hat executive said that Australian government sector was in the midst of a "very common adoption cycle" for open source.
"You might find a group within a department that begins to download and
experiment with a couple of things in non mission-critical
applications," he said.
"If things go well, they'll be allowed to adopt open source for some
more important applications and before you know it they're looking at
taking on open source as a second standard," said Munzilla.
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近日，一位到访澳大利亚的红帽高级执行官声称，目前在澳大利亚，很大一部分政府机构的CIO对开源应用部署还是心存疑虑，并不是政府信息部门没有足够的技术理解能力，主要是这些官员对Linux和开源软件及其社区还是存在着不理解。
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