Carahsoft Awarded U.S. DoD Enterprise Software Initiative Contract for Open Source Solutions
Carahsoft Technology Corp., the trusted government IT solutions provider, today announced that it has been awarded a U.S. Department of Defense ESI Blanket Purchase Agreement (BPA) for Open Source Solutions. The contract encompasses software and support services from Red Hat, JBoss, Alfresco, Pentaho, MySQL, and CollabNet.
“This BPA is significant on several levels, as it affirms open source as an enterprise-ready alternative to proprietary software,” explained Paul Smith, vice president of government operations at Red Hat. “The BPA offers DoD customers access to a broad base of industry leading open source solutions, enabling agencies to not only cut cost out of their operations, but improve their services at the same time.”
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