The Homeland Open Security Technology (HOST) project, created and sponsored by the Department of Homeland Security, will help federal, state and local agencies better understand open source as an option for technology solutions. This project will start as a one year, 1.5 million dollar, contract and depending on the results may follow up with additional [...]
Dept. Homeland Security To Sponsor Open Source Project
July 23rd, 2009 · 9:32 am
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US Postal Service Moves To Linux
July 23rd, 2009 · 9:24 am
The 1300 servers that manage the US Postal Service’s package tracking system will now run on Linux. The original system code was written in Cobol, and it has taken the better part of a year for the code to be updated for the Linux environment. It was less expensive for the Postal Service to convert [...]
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