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[News] US Government Has No Choice But to Accept Free Software

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Opening new doors

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| In this week’s cover story, contributing writer Brian Robinson examines the 
| open-source movement and its growing, if still somewhat grudging, acceptance 
| in the government space.   
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http://fcw.com/articles/2009/06/15/front-editors-desk.aspx


Recent:

BE: Government publishes source code for election software

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| The Belgian government this week has made available to the public the source
| code of the applications used for the regional and European elections held on
| 7 June, Digivote and Jites.
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| The same software will be used in upcoming elections.
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http://www.osor.eu/news/be-government-publishes-source-code-for-election-software


Cos switch to open source technologies to cut costs

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| Indian enterprises, private and public, are opening up to saving costs by
| using free for use technologies. Governments, institutions and companies are
| increasingly turning to open source technologies to turn frugal as these
| softwares, hardwares and applications are often free but also to avoid
| falling into the trap of a proprietary IT environment.
|
| [...]
|
| “We invested only about Rs 8 lakh (Rs 4 lakh for a Dell server). We will
| incur a saving of Rs 50 lakh, because of a migration from a proprietary
| software to an open ERP solution running on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
| on Dell X86 servers,” says Mankotia.
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http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/Infotech/Cos-switch-to-open-source-technologies/articleshow/4642414.cms
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