Government Department goes for Open-Source Tech
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| The Companies Office, a unit of the Ministry of Economic Development,
| has launched a new website. What is special about the new website is that
| it is based on 'Open Source' software. It is only the third government
| department to do so but the first one of the "top five" Government sites
| in NZ (by number of visitors).
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| Stefan Korn adds, "I fully expect open source systems to become much
| more common in the public and private sectors going forward as
| decision-makers are increasingly tired of vendor lock-in, proprietary
| interfaces, and ongoing licence or upgrade costs. In a number of
| application areas such as content management we firmly believe that
| open source systems provide the best implementation option at present".
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http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0610/S00043.htm
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