In an interview to be published in the November issue of GC magazine, Maude said: "We are not saying there can never be large projects, but our presumption is that we would look for smaller scale distributed models with a strict insistence on interconnectivity. In the case of the NHS, for example, you would expect different units in the health service to be able to do their own thing to a much greater extent, subject to the requirement of connectivity." On the adoption of open-source software, Maude told GC: "Our preference is to open the way for [open source], but not an assumption that [open source] is the right approach. Full Article at ZDNet UK