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To: JC Jaros who wrote (19574)	9/11/1999 1:16:00 PM
From: JC Jaros	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to 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