Microsoft encourages app-swapping councils By Lucy Sherriff Published Thursday 31st March 2005 15:19 GMT Microsoft has lifted a few tricks from the open source community to help it lock UK councils into its software ahead of the government's 2005 deadline for e-enabling local government services. Six months on from its landmark deal with Newham council, Redmond's finest is back, touting the completion of Newham's Open Application Sharing Portal (OAS). The portal will host applications developed on .NET by local authorities, where they will be accessible to any public sector organisation for downloading and further developing. [...] http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/03/31/ms_kingston_epayments/ --- publicado en The Register __________________________________ Yahoo! Messenger Show us what our next emoticon should look like. Join the fun. http://www.advision.webevents.yahoo.com/emoticontest