:Open Source and the Feds; Your Tax Dollars at Work
Open Source and the Feds; Your Tax Dollars at Work Nov 2, 2007, 13 :30 UTC (0 Talkback[s]) (4677 reads) (Other stories by Jon Erickson)
"According to the results of a report designed to identify current open source adoption rates and trends in the Federal government and undertaken by the Federal Open Source Alliance, the Feds seem to have a growing appetite of and appreciation for open source.
"Based on a survey of Department of Defense (DoD), Federal civilian, and Intelligence IT executives, the study entitled 'Federal Open Source Referendum' indicates that Federal open source implementers and non-implementers have different perceptions of the benefits and challenges associated with deploying open source, most notably around security issues..."