“What happens when the U.S. Army, whose Blue-Force Tracking
system runs on Microsoft software, starts introducing the Future
Combat Systems (FCS) vehicles that use the Linux operating
system?“That’s just one of the technical quandaries the service is
grappling with in four ‘Battle Command’ summits that are bringing
some 70 programmers, engineers and information technology (IT)
professionals to Washington to work up an IT roadmap…”