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NASA is now using open source bug tracking package Bugzilla with the space shuttle.

You'll frequently hear us discussing how the open source approaches we use here at OpenSourcery are not just cheaper, but better.  But don't take our word for it, here's what NASA has to say:

"Vera wouldn't say exactly how much the new systems cost to build, but he said they were an order of magnitude cheaper than what was being used before, closer to $100,000 than the $1 million it would have cost in the past. More to the point, Vera explained, by using open-source Bugzilla tools, technicians will be able to make changes to either PRACA or IFI more or less on the fly, rather than having to submit any proposed changes to the publishers of proprietary software, steps that often took weeks to achieve."

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