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Open Source Whitepaper updated for 2010
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| It is still relatively concise, but the fact
| that the numbers keep showing double- and
| triple-digit improvements in important
| metrics (compared with proprietary software),
| I felt that it would only be fitting to
| expand the content and the data by a
| commensurate amount. The premise holds that
| proprietary software is responsible for a
| direct dead-loss costs of $1T USD per year,
| although it is enhanced by the analysis of
| Roger Sessions showing that the sum of direct
| and indirect costs are closer to $6T USD per
| year. Either way you slice it, in these
| economic times, we simply cannot afford the
| status quo of proprietary software dominance,
| either in the IT choices we make or in the
| economic and legal agendas that they
| promulgate.
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http://opensource.org/node/486
ACC to GCs: Eliminate Software Costs
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| For example, he encouraged audience members
| seeking a full-feature, Web-based enterprise
| document management system to consider the
| open-source version of KnowledgeTree or the
| community edition of Alfresco.
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http://www.law.com/jsp/legaltechnology/pubArticleLT.jsp?id=1202434943463&ACC_to_GCs_Eliminate_Software_Costs
Recent:
DOD open-sources more than 1M lines of code
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| The U.S Department of Defense is not only
| encouraging use of open source applications,
| it recently open-sourced an enterprise human
| resources application that has over a
| million lines of code.
|
| This isn't the first time the DOD has
| released code to the public. In June, a PC-
| based mapping application developed by the
| Georgia Tech Research Institute for the
| military, FalconView, was also made
| available as open source.
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http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9140053/DOD_open_sources_more_than_1M_lines_of_code
DoD: open source as good as proprietary software
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| The Department of Defense Tuesday clarified
| its stance on open source software saying it
| is equal to commercial software in almost
| all cases and by law should be considered by
| the agency when making technology purchase
| decisions.
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http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/102709-dod-opensource.html?hpg1=bn
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