That's just great news! :o)
On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 11:50 AM, Sean Corfield <[email protected]>wrote: > > 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 !! -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
