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?
>
> >
>

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