US Navy chooses Open Source
Posted by Peng on 13 March 2008
The US Navy, in a decision being rejoiced over by the Free and Open Source community, has announced that future IT purchases will only be of open source systems.
Vice Admiral Mark Edwards, chief of naval operations for communications, said, “The days of proprietary technology must come to an end. We will no longer accept systems that couple hardware, software and data.”
The primary reason seems to be cost. “We can’t accept the increasing costs of maintaining our present-day capabilities,” Edwards said. “In the civilian marketplace, it’s just the opposite. Some private-sector concerns are cutting their costs by 90 percent while expanding their performance.”
For more information read WOW! Navy to focus only on open systems on John Schott’s blog. Thanks to Cnet’s The Open Road blog for bringing it to my attention.
