Salesforce Unveils Government Cloud
US Federal government is one of the largest IT buyers in the world and this clout gives them to dictate terms with the vendors and suppliers. One of their requirements is that the technologies the government agencies use must be compliant to Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) requirements. In simplistic terms, the services offered by […]
Cloud Computing Is Not Killing Open Source Anywhere – A Response To Gartner
Image via Wikipedia Couple of weeks back, Andrea Di Maio of Gartner wrote a blog post arguing that cloud computing is killing open source in the government. He says that the government agencies are finding cloud based alternatives to proprietary infrastructure, OS, office applications, etc. instead of the traditional open source software. According to him, this implies death […]
