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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: It’s about capitalism, not freebies
I’ve been saying for years that open source is about capitalism, not communism.
I used to laugh when Microsoft ignorantly slandered open source as “anti-American” because the inverse was so clearly the case (PDF chapter from Open Sources 2.0).
Now Forbes, hardly a bastion of communist thought, is running an article that profiles several prominent open-source capitalists, [...]
US Dept. of Defense forges an open source path
Ongoing efforts to modernize the Department of Defense’s thinking about tech issues brought the Defense Information Services Agencies (DISA) to the cusp of launching forge.mil, DISA’s own version of the SourceForge open source model.
It may seem a little surreal to have the IT support team for the Department of Defense working closely with a company [...]