[LINK] Local government

[hartr@redhat.com]

On 27 Sep, Tom Worthington wrote:

> Having talked at a couple of local government IT conferences I find
> the people more down-to-earth than those from state or federal
> government. They want to do innovative things with the Internet, but
> those projects have to actually work and be cost-effective. There
> isn't any money to just experiment with. The rate-payers are very
> ready to complain if the garbage is not collected on time.

As an interesting side note to this, local government in the USA has
been taking an increasing interest in open source software to help them
control costs and yet deliover the services that they need to make
available.

The City of Garden Grove in California was the earliest adopter of this
direction - they switched their entire operation to Red Hat Linux in
1996 (IIRC).

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