eWeek: GSA Modernizes With Open-Source Stack

"The federal government is in the process of building out an open-source stack of software to be used across agencies to develop, deploy and maintain applications across the life cycle.

"At a meeting of the Object Management Group's U.S. Government Working Group here last week, George Thomas, a chief architect at the General Services Administration, said the GSA is leading the effort to deliver an OSERA (Open Source eGov Reference Architecture) that will feature foundational technologies such as MDA (Model Driven Architecture), an ESB (enterprise service bus), an SOA (service-oriented architecture) and the Semantic Web, among other things..."

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