[PLUG] Loca lBlog: Portland looking at open source

[Rich Shepard]

On Tue, 11 May 2010, Jim Karlock wrote:

> Here's an odd one out of the Portland fire bureau. They're going on a
> fishing expedition to see if they can find somebody to convert the bureau
> computer system from some homegrown products created using a now-obsolete
> Microsoft program to open source software. But they're not even offering a
> contract at this point -- they just want some free advice in the form of
> "information" to be submitted by potential future contract bidders.

   So, you tell them "yes, it can be done and it will cost less than the
Water Bureau paid for their new system." How's that for information?

Rich