Queensland to investigate open source capability

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Jul 19, 2008 9:40 AM EDT
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When a genre of software is estimated to account for 15 percent of the total revenue generated by a given sector of the IT industry and that total is $A3.5 billion, then it is time to sit up and take notice. Which is what the government of the Australian state of Queensland has done. Queensland, which styles itself as the "smart state", has provided funding to research company Longhaus to "identify the current and growing capabilities within Queensland's ICT industry" of the open source sector.

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I would have expected every other state to do this first tracyanne 0 672 Jul 19, 2008 2:41 PM

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