DISA expands open-source suite

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Utah finance sites get up and running on a slim budget, using open-source tools

Using open-source tools, Utah's Division on Finance created Web site that gives users drill-down access to the state's financial data.

Robert Carey steers the Navy to its 'new normal'

Department of the Navy CIO Robert Carey is pushing to improve security across the department while promoting the use of Web 2.0 tools and open-source software.

Utah uses Web sites to meet public demand for transparency

The Utah Public Finance Web site has drawn praise for its ease of use, the volume of information it offers, and the low cost of its development.

Project at a glance: DISA's Open Source Corporate Management Information System

With a development team of only seven programmers, Richard Nelson led the work to develop more than 50 applications. The agency then put the programs under an open-source license, which will allow other organizations to reuse, and even improve, the software.

Necessity was the mother of many of DISA's apps

When the applications DISA needed weren't available or were too expensive, support branch team members built the apps themselves.

DISA makes 50 applications available for others to use and improve

The Defense Information Systems Agency is taking a new approach that could promote the reuse of its applications at other agencies by making its internal software open source.

After a switch to Linux, IT shop modernizes 15-year-old Cobol system without altering code

USPS switched to Linux and upgraded its 15-year-old product tracking system by deploying it within the existing mainframe environment – running the legacy Cobol application through modernization software – without altering any lines of code.

Moving to Linux, modernizing software helps USPS lower computing costs

The U.S. Postal Service upgraded its Product Tracking System in order to increase the number of packages the system could process, but information technology officials also had another goal: to reduce, by 50 percent, the cost per millions of instruction per second

Project at a glance: U.S. Postal Service's Product Tracking System upgrade

USPS chose to deploy portions of the Product Tracking System on Linux, running the Cobol application through modernization software — minimizing the amount of code modifications required.

DOD rethinking build versus buy for software apps

DISA, Army exploring a new way to acquire applications more quickly and with less cost by building them in-house.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4 released

New version features more options for virtualization, more developer tools and new modifications to speed hardware performance.

With Security Blanket 3.0, you won't lose sleep over Web-facing servers

Security Blanket will automatically lock down Web-facing servers that run Red Hat Enterprise Linux, CentOS or Sun Solaris.

Contemplating a world without Microsoft Word

If Microsoft is barred from selling Word, agencies would find alternative products and workarounds, observers say.

DISA releases open-source administration app

The Defense Information Systems Agency has released its Open Source Corporate Management System with hopes that other agencies and industry may reuse and further develop the software suite.

Federal future cloudy for Microsoft Word

Agencies are wondering how a court's ruling banning Microsoft from selling Word will affect their procurement plans.

DISA in search of a few good information technologies

DISA wants to deliver on-demand, enterprisewide technology services across the Defense Department.

Sandia supercomputer boots a million virtual machines

The supercomputer work will be used to provide a foundation for studying botnets.

New DNS vulnerability has organizations scrambling

The Internet Systems Consortium, which maintains one of the most popular DNS servers, announced last week that an exploit already is in wide circulation for a vulnerability that can allow remote attackers to crash servers running BIND 9.

Why Linux administrators should consider OpenSolaris

Sun engineer Harry Foxwell lays out his case for what makes OpenSolaris a good open-source alternative to Linux.

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