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Resource Description: A new bill on Capitol Hill could have far reaching implications for government use and development of open source platforms—potentially requiring all open source projects to "prove adequate industry support and diversification." Read more in this Government Computer News article.

Resource Description: For most agencies, server virtualization is a first step toward cloud computing. If you do virtualization right, a move to the cloud is that much easier. However, if you make a mess of it, your journey to the cloud could be tougher. Read more in this Federal Computer Week article.

Resource Description: In 2008, a team of software coders inside the National Security Agency started reverse-engineering the database that ran Google. Find out why the Senate Armed Services Committee wants to put the brakes on the project in this Wired article.

Resource Description: Gunnar Hellekson, chief technology strategist for Red Hat US Public Sector, weighs in on talk within the DoD of creating a government open source foundation.

Resource Description: John Gilroy, WFED 1500AM radio interview with Gunnar Hellekson, the chief technology strategist at Red Hat, US Public Sector.

Resource Description: Heralding the dawn of the true Information Age. That was the central theme of the Open Source Business Conference keynote from Jim Whitehurst, president and CEO of Red Hat, who also told the audience that open source is setting off the explosion of new innovation.

Resource Description: Space agency NASA is withdrawing its participation with OpenStack, the open source cloud organization it co-founded with web hosting company Rackspace, according to a report by DatacenterDynamics.

Resource Description: Section 508 Compliance Audit Voluntary Product Accessibility Template (VPAT) of JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6.0.

Resource Description: Just as federal agencies are at the preliminary stages of the cloud-adoption learning curve, vendors are introducing cloud deployment tools or otherwise bolstering their marketing presence. Read more in this E-Commerce Times article.

Resource Description: Gunnar Hellekson of Red Hat joins host John Gilroy to talk about how to make the transition to open source software. Hellekson is the chief technology strategist who helps to promote open source through an organization called Open Source for America.