http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/10/05/1611215&mode=thread
"German government email contract could lead to agencies switching to Free Software"
| Friday October 05, 12:39 PM EDT - By Grant Gross - | Just as the U.S. Congress begins considering a bill | that some advocates believe will outlaw Open Source operating | systems, the German government has hired three companies to create | Free Software email options for its IT security agency's email | project. | | The German Bundesamt für Sicherheit in der | Informationstechnik (Federal Agency for IT Security, also known as | BSI) has contracted with the German Free Software companies | Intevation and g10 Code and Swedish platform-independent software | company Klarälvdalens Datakonsult for its Sphinx secure email | project. Company officials predict the contract could lead to wider | adoption of Free Software by the German government. | | The three companies' Project Ägypten will focus on | making Open Source email programs KMail and mutt compatible with | Sphinx, which include standards S/MIME and X.509v3. The results of | the project will be released under the GNU GPL.
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If you look closely you will find some of the usual suspects involved. :)