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White House, DoD Demonstrate Support for Open Source Software

The Office of the Secretary of Defense CIO recently released policy guidance promoting the use of open source software throughout the U.S. Department of Defense. The DoD is not the only area where the federal government is embracing open source, so is the White House whose Web site now runs on open source technologies. “By choosing open source software as the defining technology of Whitehouse.gov, it is clear that the President means business,” said Bill Vass, president and COO of Sun Microsystems Federal.

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Sun Exec on Why Open Source Software is Better Than Proprietary

Sun Federal President and COO Bill Vass continues to make the case that open source technologies are the best choice and offers a multitude of reasons (and blogs) to substantiate his point. Previously, he had outlined four reasons, including security, reduced procurement time, prevent vendor lock-in and reduced cost. Now Vass asserts open source offers better quality and a means to get specific requirements injected into a product.

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Sun Micro Federal President & COO Explains

Sun Federal President and COO Bill Vass offers up four reasons to move to open source software: improved security, reduced procurement time, no vendor lock-in, and reduced cost. Vass writes, “Open source enterprise products are ready to support your mission critical applications, in the operating system area there’s Solaris, Linux, in the middleware area there’s Glassfish, JBoss, in the database area there’s MySQL, PostgreSQL and even in the desktop area…which has been lagging behind in open source, but is starting to gain some ground with over 220 million OpenOffice users.”

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Bill Vass Says This is the Year for Adoptions

Bill Vass, president and COO of Sun Federal, sees light at the end of the tunnel, and that light will soon dawn on the federal government opening itself to the improved security, procurement speed, quality and reduced cost available with open-source solutions. He announces in a recent blog that he expects all of this to happen during 2009.

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