20090623 New York State Embraces "Open Source" and So Does the CIA
From s5h.net
New York State Senate goes open source
The New York State Senate has launched what it’s calling a cutting-edge program to not only release data, “but help empower citizens and give back to the community”.
http://www.p2pnet.net/story/23537 CIA invests in open-source enterprise search
Last week, In-Q-Tel, the technology arm of the CIA, invested in Lucid Imagination, which provides support, maintenance, and add-on software for Apache Lucene and Solr. According to Lucid, the Lucene/Solr technology is downloaded more than 9,000 times per day, and more than 4,000 organizations are using the software for enterprise search.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13846_3-10270042-62.html
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