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Resource Description: Red Hat’s Mark Bohannon interviews Mike Kruger of the US DOC about the "Commerce Business Apps Challenge" to developers to look for innovative ways to use the Department’s and other publicly available data to help businesses identify opportunities, grow, enhance productivity, and create jobs.

Resource Description: Read the opensource.com article about how a former member of Congress, Tom Perriello, the moderator of a panel on open innovation, gives the words “we live in an open source world” a different context.

Resource Description: Read this Tech Bisnow article to see why JBoss Enterprise Application Platform jumping from Common Criteria certification level EAL2 to EAL4+ is a big deal.

Resource Description: A recent event in Washington, D.C., introduced government officials to a variety of new products, such as smart cybersecurity systems, information-sharing tools, and secure communications gear. Learn more in this Government Computer News article.

Description: With the federal government climbing on board with the cloud revolution, the important questions for service and application providers turn to issues surrounding security, architecture.

Resource Description: With the federal government climbing on board with the cloud revolution, the important questions for service and application providers turn to issues surrounding security, architecture. Learn more in this CIO article.

Resource Description: Open Source for America has issued a statement of support for US Chief Information Officer Steven VanRoekel’s “Shared First” initiative that calls for federal agencies to leverage best practices and existing technology resources to realize costs savings and increased efficiencies.

Resource Description: Gunnar Hellekson, the chief technology strategist for Red Hat#39;s US public sector group, joined Industry Chatter with Francis Rose to discuss virtualization and the subscription model for agency IT systems.

Resource Description: Initial fears by the Linux community—that Microsoft#39;s requirements for secure boot on future Windows 8-based machines would thwart Linux use—appear to be half-correct. Read the Government Computer News article.

Resource Description: Red Hat has released a new version of its open source enterprise virtualization platform, Red Hat® Enterprise Virtualization 3.0. This version introduces new enterprise virtualization management features and improved performance and scalability for Linux® and Windows workloads.

Resource Description: What qualities make a city open source? Is it technology, government policies, or businesses? No. It's the mindset of the people. It's the philosophy and the culture. Read more in this opensource.com article.