GSA makes the case for open source
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| Casey Coleman, the chief information officer of the General Services
| Administration, spoke at a Federal Open Source Alliance Web seminar held
| earlier today.
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| [...]
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| Coleman said that while GSA has hired a company to support the instances of
| Linux in its data center, the agency saved money by discontinuing support of
| its knowledge management software, KnowledgeTree, because the software was
| stable and the agency no longer required a lot of changes.
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http://www.gcn.com/blogs/tech/46132.html
Recent:
Navy to focus only on open systems
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| "The days of proprietary technology must come to an end," [Vice Admiral Mark
| Edwards, deputy chief of naval operations for communications] said. "We will
| no longer accept systems that couple hardware, software and data."
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http://www.fcw.com/online/news/151858-1.html
Feeling the heat at Microsoft
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| A couple of years ago you reiterated that IBM was Microsoft's biggest
| competitor and you said not just on the business side, but overall. If I ask
| you who is Microsoft's biggest competitor now, who would it be?
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| Ballmer: Open...Linux. I don't want to say open source. Linux, certainly have
| to go with that.
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http://www.news.com/Feeling-the-heat-at-Microsoft/2008-1012_3-6232458.html?tag=ne.fd.mnbc
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