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I beg to differ. The UK government (finally) has got its act together in this department. We're seeing the NHS's core "Spine" system being rewritten using open source software (riak/erlang/ubuntu + others) and we have the excellent http://gov.uk/ as well.

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And then you have a look at the new Universal Credit scheme. Glad IT schemes to do with the NHS are improving though.

Good point. I do however feel that the government departments that have failed miserably on projects will start looking at more successful projects for inspiration. We'll be a few more £billion down by then but things will improve.

HMRC's systems are pretty good these days as well (I just did my tax return online). Relatively smooth process for a large Java behemoth.

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