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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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Open Source for America to Advocate Broader Support, Participation

Sun is one of more than 70 organizations and individuals that have joined together to form a new coalition called Open Source for America that will promote the use of free and open source software to the U.S. Federal Government. Gartner recently estimated by 2011 more than 25 percent of government vertical, domain-specific applications will either be open source, contain open source application components or be developed as community source.

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