Since there are rarely open source “win” press releases, its valuable to note when organizations choose such solutions.
Per Search Enterprise Linux:
...it’s only natural that the cost-conscious, nonprofit $24 million company would turn to open source software to run the heart of its operations, from capturing and storing archaeological data to running routine business functions—even its telephone system.
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Chief Information Officer Chris Puttick. “And open source is the best long-term cost-saver ... and gives us the ultimate flexibility to adapt without restriction.”
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[The CIO begain] starting with the servers, most of which now run on Ubuntu (some 6.06 Long Term Support [LTS] and others on 8.04 LTS), and the free version of VMware, then trying the OpenOffice desktop application and the PostgreSQL open source database, which has an add-on for a geographic information system (GIS).
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Additional changes are still under way, including migration to open source GIS packages, including gvSIG, QGIS and/or GRASS,...
by Adena Schutzberg on 05/28 at 06:38 AM |
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Keith Masback is now president of the U.S. Geospatial Intelligence Foundation. K. Stuart Shea, who was the president, now serves as CEO. Masback was director of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency’s source operations group.
- Washington Technology
by Adena Schutzberg on 05/28 at 06:00 AM |
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This week Adena Schutzberg offers a condensed verison of the presentation she gave last week at the NYS Geospatial Summit, in Skenateles, NY. It focuses on the challenges of finding, accessing and moving Web-based content both geospatial and otherwise, and highlights some technologies and tools addressing those challenges. She also looks into the future and predicts what she expects to see in these areas in the coming months and years.
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by Adena Schutzberg on 05/28 at 01:00 AM |
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