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Technology Stocks : All About Sun Microsystems

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To: JC Jaros who wrote (19574)9/11/1999 1:16:00 PM
From: JC Jaros  Read Replies (2) of 64865
 
Top Officials Seek Alternatives to
Microsoft


By Stephen Trimble
FEDERAL TIMES STAFF WRITER


Concerned about security and an excessive reliance on Microsoft software, senior administration officials plan to diversify the types of operating systems software purchased by the government.

The National Security Council soon will create a new office to assess the ways federal agencies could make greater use of open-source, or nonproprietary, software
that is freely available to anyone and has codes that are not secret.

federaltimes.com
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