Navy Now Mandated to Consider FOSS as an Option

By Tyler DeGiacomo on June 7, 2007 - 9:00am

"In a memorandum handed down from Department of the Navy CIO John Carey this week, the Navy is now mandated to consider open source solutions when making new software acquisitions. According John Weathersby, executive director of the Open Source Software Institute, this is the first in a series of documents that will also address 'development and distribution issues regarding open source within Navy IT environments.'"

Navy Now Mandated to Consider FOSS as an Option.

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