Home Messages Index
[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next]
Author IndexDate IndexThread Index

[News] [OT] Europe/France Wants Search Engines Independence

  • Subject: [News] [OT] Europe/France Wants Search Engines Independence
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2008 04:41:48 +0000
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Freelance
  • User-agent: KNode/0.10.4
Quaero gets off the ground to challenge Google

,----[ Quote ]
| Almost three years after then-President Jacques Chirac of France introduced 
| Quaero to the world as the next Google-killer, the Internet search project 
| has finally gotten its first funding.  
| 
| [...]
| 
| "It's extremely important for the future for Europe to be present in this 
| field," he said. "Since most of the large players are American, it makes  
| sense. Either you're Google, Microsoft or Yahoo and you can do it in-house, 
| or you're not, and so you have to collaborate with people."  
`----

http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/03/21/technology/quaero24.php

It's the same with software. Simon Phipps raised this issue last week.


Related:

Open source: the key to sustainable savings in public sector IT

,----[ Quote ]
| Things could hardly be tougher in the Whitehall front line. Last year Gordon 
| Brown made it clear in his budget speech just what he expects – 4% annual 
| growth in spending on front line services financed out of just 2% overall 
| budget growth.   
| 
| Enacting this latter day miracle of loaves and fishes is not going to be 
| easy. But it will not happen at all unless Whitehall ends its chronic failure 
| to use market power to deliver sustainable savings in the massive bill the 
| public sector pays for software.   
| 
| Nowhere else would departments or their agencies tolerate a monopoly or a 
| monoculture. Imagine if every department decided, as policy, to buy its 
| hardware from the same supplier. Of course innovation wouldn’t stop – 
| improvements in manufacturing and the fundamental laws of physics would see 
| to that. But the pace would slow – what’s the incentive if the buyer is 
| locked in? – and the price would rocket.     
`----

http://www.computerworlduk.com/community/blogs/index.cfm?entryid=563&blogid=17

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next]
Author IndexDate IndexThread Index