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Recent FOI request received affirmative response from just one government body - but in fact the picture might be even bleaker

The lack of government adoption of open source storage may be even more pronounced than a recent Freedom of Information (FOI) request suggested.

The FOI request, filed by open source vendor Nexenta, initially showed that just one of the 44 government bodies which responded had bought into open source storage.

Senior information assurance official says new guidance dispels myths about security

It is wrong to believe that open source software is implicitly insecure, according to the government's main official on the subject.

Qamar Yunus, assistant director in the Cabinet Office ICT policy team, made the assertion in outlining the guidance the organisation has produced on the subject at the EHI Live event in Birmingham.

The government has released guidelines to help public sector organisations deploy open source systems.