[luau] News: US State Court goes with Linux

[Warren Togami]

On Mon, 2003-05-05 at 07:34, Louis Suarez-Potts wrote:
> The article is here:
> http://newsforge.com/newsforge/03/05/05/1527254.shtml?tid=23
> 
> Anne Zieger writes,
> "While open source technology hasn't exactly conquered state governments
> everywhere, it's begun to make inroads in quite a few, including Iowa, Utah,
> Rhode Island, and Hawaii. Now Louisiana is jumping on the open source
> bandwagon, too. 
> 
> "Rhode Island, for example, recently built out a portal serving up state
> rules and regulations on open source technology,  using Linux, Apache, MySQL
> and PHP/Perl/Python. The state's IT department spent $40K to build the
> portal, working two days a week for four months to get the job done."
> 
> 
> Louis Suarez-Potts
> Community Manager
> OpenOffice.org