IBM is sinking its teeth deeper into government IT today with a new software framework that joins the company's expansive middleware portfolio into a neat package for The Man 2.0. The new IBM Government Industry Framework is designed for government citizen IT services – a market that covers nearly everything fed except IT security and intelligence. (IBM already provides a military-grade software platform that it's keeping separate for a variety of control and security reasons). Lonne Jaffe, director IBM Public Sectors Solutions, told El Reg the framework is something the IT company has worked on internally over the past four years or so, but it also ties nicely into current US stimulus funding.
