Now if they only applied this philosophy to their huge hundred-million-euro healthcare information system project currently in the last stages of the bidding competition [1]. It will in all likelihood be a completely closed, monolithic, proprietary system and, as far as I know, no attempt is done in the specifications to avoid vendor lock-in. It will probably become a nice cashcow for whichever megacorp wins the project.
A fair number of `Open Data` municipal initiatives seem to end with a single SQL dump or two handed over to a commercial vendor (such as socrata) for display. Not much of substance, but just enough for an elected official to say "see look, I made us an open data city!"
