I have no idea about the details of <a href="http://recovery.gov">recovery.gov</a>, but usually software licensing is a trivial fraction of the cost of such projects (though open source projects do tend to have overall costs that are lower), and more importantly costs may have been much higher had they gone a different way. Last I checked, <a href="http://recovery.gov">recovery.gov</a> was a pretty involved website...<div class="gmail_extra">
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 1:08 PM, Stan Slonkosky <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:stan.ke6zc@gmail.com" target="_blank">stan.ke6zc@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
If they used open source software why did the <a href="http://recovery.gov" target="_blank">recovery.gov</a> web site cost $18 million to redesign?<div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 12:46 PM, Miguel Hernandez <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:migtek@gmail.com" target="_blank">migtek@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">No QA (or Beta period) will net those results EVERY time hehe. The more important question is: Did Romney not learn anything from Obama's tech team? You know, Obama being the first president to ever openly embrace open source software & whose tech team used open source at most levels of their IT's organizational structure (starting w/Obama's campaign website all the way to <a href="http://recovery.gov" target="_blank">recovery.gov</a>, <a href="http://whitehouse.gov" target="_blank">whitehouse.gov</a> & its IT spending dashboard just to name a few). As an example, his IT & Web staff not only used Drupal extensively but also contributed code back to the Drupal community as well as got involved via presenting at DUGs (Drupal User Groups), DrupalCamp's & the largest of Drupal gatherings, DrupalCons.<div>
<br></div><div>Here's an initial news blurb: <a href="http://radar.oreilly.com/2009/10/whitehouse-switch-drupal-opensource.html" target="_blank">http://radar.oreilly.com/2009/10/whitehouse-switch-drupal-opensource.html</a></div>
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Here's a short video: <a href="http://drupal.org/whitehouse-gov-launches-on-drupal-engages-community" target="_blank">http://drupal.org/whitehouse-gov-launches-on-drupal-engages-community</a></div><div><br></div><div>
cheers,</div><div>
--miguel</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div>On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 7:48 AM, Arthur Baldwin <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:eengnerd@yahoo.com" target="_blank">eengnerd@yahoo.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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</span></div><div><span>The burning question on my mind is "have they learned anything from this experience"? Will they try Linux servers next time...seeing that around 90% or more of web site servers are already Linux servers? I voted for Romney and I knew that something very wrong had happened. I told myself that Americans could not possibly be stupid enough to choose Obama. This "meltdown" is poetic justice. It should teach Republicans that the Microsoft business model (as set forth in the Halloween documents) is not a viable path to choose. Open source makes sense and now they (campaign managers) have the proof in a hard earned personal lesson. Let's hope they learned something.</span></div>
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<div> <div dir="ltr"> <font face="Arial"> <hr size="1"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold">From:</span></b> matti <<a href="mailto:mathew_2000@yahoo.com" target="_blank">mathew_2000@yahoo.com</a>><br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">To:</span></b> SGVLUGDiscussion List. <<a href="mailto:sgvlug@sgvlug.net" target="_blank">sgvlug@sgvlug.net</a>> <br> <b><span style="font-weight:bold">Sent:</span></b> Friday, November 9, 2012 3:32 PM<br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Subject:</span></b> [SGVLUG] Inside Team Romney's whale of an IT meltdown<br> </font> </div></div><div><div> <br>
Really!?!? .. wow... <br><br><br><br>Inside Team Romney's whale of an IT meltdown<br>Orca, the Romney campaign's "killer" app, skips beta and pays the price.<br><br>"To build Orca, the Romney campaign turned to Microsoft and an unnamed application consulting firm. The goal was to put a mobile application in the hands of 37,000 volunteers in swing states .. Part of the issue was Orca's architecture. While 11 backend database servers had been provisioned for the system—probably running on virtual machines—the "mobile" piece of Orca was a Web application supported by a single Web server and a single application server"<br>
<br><a href="http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/11/inside-team-romneys-whale-of-an-it-meltdown/" target="_blank">http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/11/inside-team-romneys-whale-of-an-it-meltdown/</a><br>
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</blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div></div></div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888">-- <br>Stan Slonkosky<br><br>
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