Squiz win opens door for more
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| Squiz, which has annual revenue of $15 million and 110 staff, was now the
| largest supplier of content management systems in Australia "by quite a long
| way", Mr Syriatowicz said.
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http://www.australianit.news.com.au/story/0,24897,22317128-15306,00.html
Not Free software on the face of it. Microsoft also lobbies very heavily over
there.
Related:
Governments slammed for anti-competitive software tendering practices
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| A leading Australian open source advocate has called for an end for to
| tender lock-outs of competitors to Microsoft, claiming the practice
| is costing Australian taxpayers tens of millions of dollars each
| year.
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http://www.itwire.com.au/content/view/11496/53/
Don't mention the broadband speeds
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| The outspoken Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is on a whirlwind tour of
| Australia, but don't expect to hear too much about him as he's being kept
| out of the limelight.
|
| [...]
|
| But Microsoft has kept the boss's movements out of the public eye
| and a spokeswoman said "we are not letting any media in" to watch
| today's speech. Instead, a video recording of the speech will be
| uploaded for journalists to watch after the event.
|
| Microsoft confirmed the video would be edited but would not say
| if the editing was done for aesthetics reasons or to conceal
| certain comments from the public.
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http://www.smh.com.au/news/technology/dont-mention-the-broadband/2007/05/25/1179601632521.html?s_cid=rss_technology
Feds revise IT procurement model
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| The federal government has launched version two of the SourceIT
| model contracts and user notes aimed at simplifying procurement of
| information technology 12 months after the first version.
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http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php?id=805606582&rid=-50
Is the Smart State confused about open source?
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| "Open source is no longer a movement but it is a market and we see that by
| looking at large vendors being the driving force and less and less
| individual contributors," Higgins said.
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http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php/id;599546513;fp;2;fpid;1
Vice-like grip of US copyright laws bears down on Australians
,----[ Quote ]
| The alignment in IP laws between the two countries, said Childs,
| enabled an Australian to be extradited to the US for illegally
| downloading and sharing files over the internet.
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http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php?id=302089593&rid=-50
Government agencies embracing open source: Australian Government Information
Management Office [AGIMO]
,----[ Quote ]
| Two in three (68 percent) of respondents to an AGIMO survey of
| federal government agencies said they are actively using FOSS.
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http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/software/soa/Government-agencies-embracing-open-source-AGIMO/0,130061733,339279972,00.htm
Australia To Trial OLPC
,----[ Quote ]
| In a surprise announcement, the government of the Northern Territory
| has announced that they are testing the OLPC (One Laptop Per Child)
| machines with a view to launching trials in remote communities.
|
| The OLPC has been designed for children in the developing world, in
| regions that struggle for basic infrastructure like clean running
| water, and electricity. So it may come as a surprise to some that
| an Australian state government has put up a hand to trial the new
| laptops.
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http://www.localfoss.org/Australia_To_Trial_OLPC
Office 2007 may be Microsoft's Titanic: former Government IT boss
,----[ Quote ]
| Bill Gates has been talking up Office 2007 ahead of its business launch
| on November 30. However, the recently departed deputy CIO of one of
| Australia's biggest government Microsoft sites believes introducing
| the new version of Microsoft Office may be the company's biggest
| ever disaster.
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http://www.itwire.com.au/content/view/7234/53/
Feds assess open source
,----[ Quote ]
| Federal government use of open-source software will be examined to assess
| how many agencies have adopted Linux and other systems.
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http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,20553874%5E15441%5E%5Enbv%5E15306-15319,00.html
Talking Linux in Sydney
,----[ Quote ]
| There are three major Linux conferences held annually, one each in the
| US, Canada and Australia.
|
| That alone should provide an indication of the extent to which
| Australians have been, and are, involved in the free and open
| source software community.
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http://www.itwire.com.au/content/view/8527/1090/
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