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New Technologies Cut Cost of Government IT Deployments
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| How do you do something for next to nothing? Governments are turning more to
| open source software, according to Deborah Bryant, public-sector communities
| manager of the Open Source Lab at Oregon State University. Though she said
| there isn't a quantifiable way to measure the trend, the evidence is
| anecdotal. She cited a few examples among many:
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| * The Oregon Department of Human Services deployed SugarCRM, a mature,
| open source customer relationship management (CRM) software suite that's
| much cheaper than most CRM systems.
| * Some government-run Web sites, including that of Lowell, Mass., are
| based upon Plone, an open source content management system.
| * The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) uses open source extensively,
| Bryant said. The DoD has underwritten studies of open source and an open
| technology road map.
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http://www.govtech.com/gt/418686?topic=117688
Open Source Middleware Measures Up
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| Red Hat’s JBoss Enterprise Middleware solutions have been recognized in two
| recent analyst reports, putting Open Source options for middleware firmly in
| the running for enterprise adoption.
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http://www.oetrends.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=265
"The government is not trying to destroy Microsoft, it’s simply seeking to
compel Microsoft to obey the law. It’s quite revealing that Mr. Gates equates
the two."
--Government official
Recent:
Ballmer Still Searching for an Answer to Google
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| "Forty percent of servers run Windows, 60 percent run Linux," he said. "How
| are we doing? Forty is less than 60, so I don't like it. ... We have some
| work to do."
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http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/151568/ballmer_still_searching_for_an_answer_to_google.html
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