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The call for government adoption of open source technology is picking up steam in the United States as well as in Britain. According to a study from MeriTalk, which focuses on technology and public policy, Red Hat, and Red Hat VAR DLT Solutions, the U.S. government could save billions of dollars by adopting open source, virtualization and cloud computing in tandem. Meanwhile, the U.K. government has announced plans to accelerate deployment of open source software.?

Red Hat, along with the City University of New York and Intel, announced yesterday that they are creating the New York City Open Source Solutions Lab. This lab, which will be headquartered at CUNY's Institute for Software Design and Development in Manhattan, is aimed at helping local and state government agencies in New York take advantage of open-source solutions. The lab will provide governments with the ability to develop and test a variety of open-source technologies running on Intel chips.