VNUnet: Government Open Source Trials Make Progress

[ Thanks to Jason Greenwood for this link. ]

"The latest in the series of public sector open source trials will begin next month, with local government users keen to adopt the technology.

"Powys Council is to work with IBM to integrate the open source Samba File and Print product into a sophisticated Lightweight Directory Access Protocol directory for single sign-on and authorisation.

"The council has used Linux since 1998 for its infrastructure but not for end-user applications. 'We are very comfortable Linux users,' said IT manager Andrew Smith..."

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