[LINK] Australian Data ARK

[David Lochrin]

On Thursday 12 February 2009 02:11, Tom Koltai wrote:
> I suggest that the establishment of the datacentre should possibly be a
> joint Fujitsu/EDI/IBM with a Google frontend national database centre, 
> 
> The datacentre would by design be split into four distinct locations.
> One IBM, One Fijitsu, One EDI and one Google.
> 
> Both Fujitsu and IBM would be required to submit to the specifications
> of Google (as the front end) and EDI as the backend. [...]

I haven't read the original request for comments.  But is such a level of business focus, naming specific companies, really appropriate?  In any case, I think the Government & Public Service would have its' own ideas about a proper commercial / strategic solution.

Did you say anything about use of public-domain standards, or do you propose to leave all that to Google etc?

But the biggest question is ~why~ do it this way?  I'd have thought government is more interested in principles.

David