Tux at the Post Office

Very cool! From Government Computing News:

Agencies open up to open-source software
The U.S. Postal Service is the latest government agency to embrace open-source software in an attempt to lower its information technology operating costs by standardizing its mainframe-based tracking system on the open-source � and less expensive � Linux operating system.

The Postal Service is moving 1,300 Sun Solaris midrange servers to a Hewlett-Packard Linux environment, using Novell�s SUSE Linux on the mainframe and distributed computing platforms to forge greater interoperability between the two environments.

The article mentions that other agencies are also using FOSS including Homeland Security, Defense Information Systems Agency, DoD and Goddard Space Flight Center. Very cool -- these agencies have the $$$ and manpower to develop some good applications -- it will be fun to see what trickles down to us Citizens. Here is the DoD website: FORGE.MIL