Yesterday Federal CIO Vivek Kundra identified 98 additional data centers that will be shut down by the end of this year and gave an update on the federal 25 point plan. It seems agencies are coming along fairly well and they're talking seriously about collaboration. In related news, it's becoming evident that the crowd is beginning to impact decision-making on how to weather the storm. A panel of CXOs advice to vendors this week was "talk to the program managers, they're the ones who know what they need to carry out the business." As for Open Government's fate, base on Facebook and Wikileak's success, I'm not convinced that money is the issue. Transparency is going to come as a result of all of this storm activity, not as a traditional IT project. We don't need to rebuild that house.