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01.17.06
MySQL
Joins The Feds
 By
David A. Utter
The General Services Administration, procurement office to the government, has
awarded a 5-year contract to MySQL AB for placement in its listings for purchase
by federal agencies.
Carahsoft Technology provides various IT solutions to government levels from federal
down through local ones. A new GSA contract reported
by eWeek makes it easier for government offices to order MySQL through Carahsoft.
The company lists MySQL and Red Hat as open source solutions it provides to government.
In their PAGE about MySQL,
Carahsoft noted how every continent has the database running somewhere on it,
including Antarctica.
Carahsoft also produced a white paper about MySQL in August 2005. They cited four
factors of interest to federal purchasers: greater interoperability, lock-in elimination,
higher level of security, and lower total cost of ownership.
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Further in the document, the company illustrated a cost breakdown of going with
Oracle 8i as a database solution for an agency, citing IDC as the data source:
IDC found that software cost is only 15% of the total cost
of deploying an Oracle 8i Database application - the hardware was 17%, staffing
21% and training 19%. A full 28% of the total cost of Oracle database deployment
is attributed to system downtime.
"Although few would propose that all government software should be open source,
there is clearly an opportunity for its further adoption in government," Carahsoft
said in its white paper.
About the Author:
David Utter is a staff writer for WebProNews covering technology and business.
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