Some US government departments have recently been given / adopted a mandate to move to open source. At CFUnited, a govt employee came up to the Railo booth, very excited after hearing Joe Rinehart mention Railo as open source... he was currently writing a proposal to cross-train his CF team to PHP and rewrite all of their CFML apps in PHP because of his department's mandate. Having seen Railo in action, he realized he could keep his CF dev team and code and still go open source.
So, yes, there are moves afoot in (some) US govt departments to adopt open source so both OpenBD and Railo could gain market share within the govt based on that! Many govt departments worldwide seem to be moving to open source (at Railo we see it in Europe and APAC as well as within the US). Sean On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 9:49 AM, Vince Bonfanti <[email protected]> wrote: > I thought this was interesting, not because it's PHP/Drupal, but > because it's a high-profile use of open source within the federal > government: > > > http://news.cnet.com/8301-30685_3-10382893-264.html?tag=newsEditorsPicksArea.0 > > I know there's a lot of ColdFusion (and other CFML engines) within the > federal government--maybe if there's a big push towards open source > this creates an opportunity for OpenBD? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Open BlueDragon Public Mailing List http://groups.google.com/group/openbd?hl=en official site @ http://www.openbluedragon.org/ !! save a network - trim replies before posting !! -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
