Robin Muilwijk

Interesting article, cloud solutions have taken a place in IT the last few years. I work in the public sector, local government. I can see a slow adoption of cloud solutions, this makes it even more interesting how such organisations will adapt to the cloud and which questions they will be confronted with similar to the above.

I can already see companies, which deliver cloud solutions to the public sector, develop private clouds but if they are open?

I personally think the EC would benefit, and have this program succeed, if they not only develop this strategy further with companies who provide the cloud services, but also 'teach' the users about the cloud and open source and standards.

Edit: just got confirmed PinkRoccade, one of the major players servicing the public sector in the Netherlands with new cloud based solutions are working with Red Hat, using for example PostgreSQL and Alfresco. Hat Tip to PinkRoccade for doing it 'the open source way'.

@Drew, thanks for the tip on The Old Reader, did not know about that one. Will certainly look at it.