From this Government Computer News article: ‘State and local governments are giving more consideration to use of open-source code to help relieve budget pressures, according to market research firm Input Inc.

The Reston, Va.-based firm reported this month that state and local government agencies are leading the public sector market in adopting open-source software because of IT budget restraints, increasing hardware and software licensing costs, and the need to manage operations more aggressively than the federal government…’