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February 23, 2005
Open Source in Government
The viability, and adoption of Open Source and Linux in government has gotten a lot of press recently. The German government has been switching in a big way, the UK government says Linux is viable and don't forget Vienna, Austria. Meanwhile RH has announced a federal unit to work with the government on adopting Open Source in government.
There's a project of the Niedersachsen police called Nivadis (German only) which is a custom system built on Weblogic + Oracle running on RH Linux Itanium servers. That's not even mentioning the almost 12000 desktops they're switching to Linux.
Even the National Security Agency has gotten into the act.
If you want to keep up with this area, I would recommend this new email list on Linux and government. You may also want to check out this whitepaper from NetAction.
Posted by admin at February 23, 2005 03:39 PM