Archived decisions

 

Hampshire County Council

 

Executive Member - Policy and Resources

Item 10

 

6 December 2005

  
 

Approval to Revise the Software Licence Agreement with Microsoft

 

Report of The County Treasurer

Summary of CONFIDENTIAL Decision

Report of the Head of IT Services

Contact: Chris Braines, HPSN 200 7430 Email: [email protected]

3. Summary

The following decision is sought:

    Approval to revise the software licence agreement with Microsoft in order to introduce more flexibility in the terms and conditions.

4. Reasons

    To enable significantly wider collaborative working with partner organisations and to address changing business requirements as described in the associated confidential report.

    This decision supports the following Aim of the Corporate Strategy :

    Aim 5 - Improving services

5. Other options considered and rejected

    The viability of replacing Microsoft with Open Source Software was considered but is not appropriate for these software components at this time.

6. Conflicts of Interest declared by the decision-maker or other Executive Member consulted

N/A

7. Dispensation granted by the Standards Committee

    N/A

8. Reasons for the matter being dealt with if urgent

    N/A

Approved by: _______________________________

          (Councillor T. K. Thornber)

Date of decision: ________________________________