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[News] Governments Turn to Free Software

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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


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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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