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Government Open Source

posted Nov 26, 2009 5:17 PM by Peter Cooper
The NSW Government is seriously considering going Open Source.

The NSW Government estimates it spends $100 million per year on software licences, out of a total IT and telecommunications budget of $700 million. It maintains a fleet of 320,000 desktop computers with an annual total ownership cost of around $2500 each. In the last financial year it acquired more than 70,000 desktop PCs and 28,000 notebooks.

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