If you’ve been following President Obama’s search for a CTO for the country, you may have seen BusinessWeek’s report that the choice he will make has narrowed down to two candidates, both born in India: Padmasree Warrior, the chief technology officer of Cisco Systems, and Vivek Kundra, CTO in the government of Washington, D.C. Now, ex-Sun CEO Scott McNealy has revealed that he has been asked to prepare a paper for the Obama administration on how open source technologies are the key to a more secure, more efficient government.
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