Military enlists open source community; Microsoft targets Windows, Linux management

DoD is adopting a collaborative approach to speed software development, reduce cost Linuxworld.com | Subscribe to this site with RSS | Update Your Profile Military enlists open source community By Carolyn Duffy Marsan The Defense Department is trying to take advantage of Web-based communities to speed up software development and reduce its costs. Read full story   Sponsored by Novell     Experience a new level of interoperability. Deploy and implement virtualization, identity management and systems management solutions from Novell and Microsoft that reduce the complexity of your mixed-IT environments and increase ROI. Request a SUSE Linux Enterprise deployment kit now at.   Related News: Editor's note: We will be changing how we send out Network World newsletters over the next few weeks. To ensure future delivery of your newsletters, please add nww_newsletters@newsletters.networkworld.com to your e-mail address book or 66.186.127.216 to your white-list file. Thank you. 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