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Governments worldwide are one of the biggest consumers and spenders of IT. For example, the United States government is spending approximately $75 billion annually on over 6,000 separate IT investments. As part of the latest set of budget priorities, Steven van Roekel, the United States Federal Chief Information officer is asking federal local and state agencies to do "Do More with Less" to maximize the Return on Investment (ROI) of Federal IT.
At the same time governments have pledged to improve services by being more open and transparent with the mountains of valuable data they collect. As a result, governments are challenged with the seemingly impossible: improve and expand services while cutting costs.
Governments have taken the initiative to adopt an open source strategy in order to reduce costs, improve government data sharing, and return value to taxpayers. Not only are governments consumers of open source software but many projects are being contributed back to the open source community.
Governments worldwide as well as US federal, state and local governments are choosing MySQL as a cost-effective and easy to use solution to manage their data and develop new innovative applications. MySQL provides the following unique capabilities that make it the world's most popular open source database:
