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CIO en VO : l'US Army adopte le développement communautaire open-source
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Le développement communautaire open-source n'est pas un mode de travail évident pour une organisation très hiérarchisée comme l'armée. Pourtant, l'armée américaine a franchi le pas...
"We've been able to cut down on help desk support so substantially," Nelson says. "With the old version, we were running anywhere from 75 to 100 help desk calls and e-mails a day. Now our average is less than five e-mails and calls. It's not because people are using it less but because it has fewer problems."
Nelson says a key driver for CMIS is that it needs to be so intuitive that users don't need training.
"If the customer requires instruction on the product, we have failed and we will do it over," Nelson says. "The reason that we're able to do that so successfully is that we take a somewhat different approach to the way most software is designed. Most software is designed so that business logic and processes need to follow software logic and process. Therefore it requires substantial training. We do it exactly opposite."
The Open Software Services Institute will make CMIS available in two different licenses: a regular open source license for government agencies and companies, and a free license for academia.
Nelson says CMIS has a cutting-edge approach to learning management, handling everything from training course sign-up to approvals and payment. Another unusual feature of CMIS is its telework management application.
Nelson says he hopes many organizations will license CMIS and start adding new capabilities so DISA can take advantage of a vibrant CMIS community of developers.
Within three years, "I would hope that a number of others inside government and beyond are using it," Nelson said. "I'm hoping we all have ready access to qualified developers. I'm hoping that DISA gets access to a substantial number of additional applications...without having to build them ourselves."
Carolyn Duffy Marsan - © 2007 Network World Inc.
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