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Gov't GSA Office goes MySQL

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the gov't-approved dept.

comforteagle writes "MySQL has won a five year contract with the US General Services Administration office putting it in yet another government office on top of NASA, the Dept. of Def., Los Alamos National Labs & the Census Bureau. This additional win allows around 70 Government customers to purchase and deploy MySQL."

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  1. Note to self.... by Stevarino · · Score: 2, Funny

    Wake up tomorrow and sell Perl/PHP contract to government.

  2. Just goes to show how xenophobic the US govt. is by Netsnipe · · Score: 5, Funny

    Choosing to go with a database that doesn't support foreign keys.

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  3. You've gotta hand it to 'em by brogdon · · Score: 5, Funny

    After years of exhaustive, painstaking, and expensive study, our government has finally devised a method to buy something that's free.

    I hope it at least comes with a $600 wrench or something...

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  4. Yay for Pride! by suwain_2 · · Score: 1, Funny

    The government has a GSA? Even with such a homophobic President? And they're not using a Microsoft product? I think hell's about to freeze over.

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  5. In other news by SmallFurryCreature · · Score: 4, Funny

    Both Steve Ballmer and Larry Elison were seen throwing chairs and screaming, "We are a going to fucking bury the DoD, we did it before and we will do it again".

    The DoD was heard mumbling something along the lines of "you and what army" and went back to keeping democracy save for billionares everywhere.

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