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[News] US Government Might Abandon Old Desktop Paradigm

  • Subject: [News] US Government Might Abandon Old Desktop Paradigm
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 08:25:34 +0000
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Netscape / schestowitz.com
  • User-agent: KNode/0.10.4
US OMB pushes for software as a service

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| A top official with the U.S. White House's Office of Management and Budget 
| (OMB) gave her strongest endorsement yet to software as a service, saying 
| Wednesday it can help federal agencies cut development costs.  
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/17/AR2008011701046.html


Related:

FAA May Ditch Microsoft's Windows Vista And Office For Google And Linux Combo 

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| Bowen said he's in talks with the aviation safety agency's main
| hardware supplier, Dell Computer, to determine if it could
| deliver Linux-based computers capable of accessing Google
| Apps through a non-Microsoft browser once the FAA's XP-based
| computers pass their shelf life.
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http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=197800480


Can Google and Linux Topple Microsoft?

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| The story had a certain flair. In early March, the chief information
| officer of the Federal Aviation Administration, David Bowen, was
| reportedly considering forsaking Microsoft Windows and Office in
| favor of the Linux operating system and the Web-based Google Apps
| Premium office suite.
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http://www.linuxinsider.com/rsstory/57534.html

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