NewsForge editor Grant Gross reports on Linux in Navy systems and highlights initiatives that are underway to examine the replacement of proprietary systems with open source Linux. Gross writes . . .

“The Naval Oceanographic Office already uses Linux and other Open Source tools for a variety of functions, and it could use them even more after it receives recommendations from the Open-Source Software Institute, due out by the end of the year.”

” . . . OSSI has completed the first phase of its NAVOCEANO study, identifying where Open Source software is being used there, although it's still hard to peg percentages on how prevalent it is at the agency. NAVOCEANO CIO John Lever says Open Source probably won't work for all the agency's needs — for example, he believes commercial geographic information system software still offers more functionality than its Open Source counterparts, although the office does use several Open Source GIS packages, too r's use of Open Source software, and researchers have identified several areas where Linux is used, including the data collection computers on NAVOCEANO's survey ships, which collect ocean data from a dozens of instruments. The office also uses Linux for visualization systems, storage systems, and on some desktops, says Andrew Aitken of Olliance Consulting Group, which is helping OSSI with the NAVOCEANO study . . . “

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