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The Swedish National Police Move to an Open Source Infrastructure…

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Oct 3, 2007

“MySQL AB [has] announced that the Swedish National Police is
implementing an enterprise-wide project for building all future IT
systems on an open source software (‘OSS’) infrastructure based
upon Linux, MySQL and JBoss. Several existing systems are currently
being migrated and all future projects will be developed on this
OSS foundation.

“‘Our primary aims are to cut costs and reduce the risk of
vendor lock-in while maintaining the high reliability and security
inherent in police work,’ said Per-Ola Sjöswärd,
Executive IT-strategist for the Swedish National Police…”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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