Former government CIO Laurence Millar promised at the start of his address to the GOVIS conference last month that there would be “no dirt” revealed in relation to his abrupt resignation from the post, and that of Deputy State Services Commissioner.
Conchords get their Google on
GOVIS has adopted a one-day mini-conference programme for the “odd” years between biennial GOVIS conferences.
After listening to Microsoft’s Bill Hilf, one delegate at the recent government IT managers’ forum, Govis, was heard to say, “You’d almost believe Microsoft was the leading supporter of open source software.”
Delegates to the Govis open source seminar had a chance to compare the government’s just-published Guide to Legal Issues in Using Open Source Software with its Australian equivalent.