Open Source and the Federal Budget Squeeze

"If there's anything federal agencies put a premium on, it's streamlining costs," said Jaspersoft CEO Brian Gentile. "Deploying open source software generally takes less time and fewer resources than proprietary software. It's also built on open standards, so licensing costs are exponentially less, and the public sector has the responsibility to use every tax dollar as efficiently as possible."

"One of the benefits is that open source offerings are as good or better than proprietary technologies in terms of functionality and they are less expensive," suggested Sam Friedman, business intelligence practice manager for Column Technologies.

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