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Cover Oregon Should Have Used Open-Source Software: Guest Opinion

John Miller | Oregon Live | March 3, 2014

To me, guest columnist Charles Jennings accurately represents the old school IT mentality - "No one ever got fired for buying IBM."  I couldn't gather from his essay whether he knows anything about modern software development methodology.

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Is Open Source Software The Answer to Oregon's IT Problems?

Dave Miller | OPB | March 11, 2014

When Oregon’s new Chief Information Officer, Alex Pettit,was on our show recently, we asked him what stood out from his move from Oklahoma to the northwest.

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Oregon's Health Care Website Is Worse Than Healthcare.gov

Sophie Novack | Nextgov.com | April 24, 2014

Oregon is set to become the first state to switch over to the federal Obamacare exchange.  The state exchange, Cover Oregon, has been such a failure that moving to the once broken HealthCare.gov seems preferable to trying to salvage its system.

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U.S. Prosecutors Investigate Oregon's Failed Health Insurance Exchange

Maeve Reston | Government Technology | May 23, 2014

The U.S. attorney's office in Portland has issued subpoenas to Oregon's health insurance exchange as part of a grand jury investigation into the spectacular failure of the state's system, which was never able to enroll consumers online even though it spent more than $248 million in taxpayer money on the operation...

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