VARs Partner To Deliver Open Source Tech To Government Agencies
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| "We're a master government aggregator," said Craig Abod, president of
| Carahsoft, Reston, Va. "We represent Red Hat, and have built a government
| practice around open source. There is a lot of inertia now for government
| agencies to look at open source. It can be very cost effective. They've
| figured out it is a secure method to deploy and build products. Red Hat has
| done a lot to convince governmental agencies that open source can be deployed
| in mission-critical environments. The government has caught on that open
| source is a good methodology."
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http://www.crn.com/government/206501272
Open Source Software a Key Enabler for Viable E-governance
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| Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) is one of the most important ingredients
| for the spread of e-governance in the India, said Satish Babu, National
| Secretary of the Computer Society of India (CSI). He was inaugurating the
| one-day seminar on the JBoss Application Server in Technopark, Trivandrum on
| February 8, 2008.
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http://www.indiaprwire.com/pressrelease/computer-software/200802117281.htm
Ingres Part of a Project to Give Financial Boost to Developing Countries
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| he open source software project, known as iTax, is a joint undertaking with
| the Government of the Philippines and the German Technical Cooperation
| (Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Technische Zusammenarbeit, GTZ). Chaired by GTZ
| team leader Ernst-Dieter Fuchs, the project was launched to provide
| Philippine authorities with an efficient way to manage and collect taxes. The
| project was initially implemented in the Philippine province of Negros
| Oriental to raise and manage taxes for such things as real estate, trade
| income, and public taxes for water and energy.
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http://sev.prnewswire.com/computer-electronics/20080212/AQTU08212022008-1.html
Quote for the day:
"I have never known much good done by those who affected to trade for the
public good."
--Adam Smith
Recent:
India Knowledge@Wharton | Operating in an open system
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| Venkatesh Hariharan, co-founder of the Open Source Foundation of India,
| mentions the Maharashtra e-governance projects, where the preferred option
| was the open-source Linux operating system.
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http://www.livemint.com/2008/02/03235913/India-KnowledgeWharton----Op.html
Qld govt develops open source record-keeping CMS
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| Stronghold is written in [ArtId:1241831333|PHP]] with the primary database
| being PostgreSQL and uses a Samba module for Active Directory integration and
| single sign-on, and the FCKEditor for WYSIWYG editing of content.
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http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php?id=1990769430&rid=-50
4 Ways To Help the Government Adopt Open Source Technologies
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| Bob Sutor, Vice President of Open Source and Standards at IBM, issued a
| challenge to the open source community for 2008. One of his ten challenges to
| the community was:
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| “Help governments adopt free and open source-friendly IT policies that permit
| maximal apples-to-apples comparisons of FOSS and proprietary software with
| regard to relative value for total cost of ownership, local business
| generation, and innovation of technology for the social good.”
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http://www.opensourceconnections.com/2008/01/30/4-ways-to-help-the-government-adopt-open-source-technologies/
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