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Queensland to investigate open source capability
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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.
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| 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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http://www.itwire.com/content/view/19517/1148/
Also from Queensland:
Qld govt develops open source record-keeping CMS
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| Stronghold is written in [ArtId:1241831333|PHP]] with the primary database
| being PostgreSQL and uses a Samba module for Active Directory integration and
| single sign-on, and the FCKEditor for WYSIWYG editing of content.
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http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php?id=1990769430&rid=-50
Qld hospital admits open source BI
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| After a meeting with Brisbane-based NetOptions, a member of
| the Datacom group, the project to build a Web-based dashboard
| with open source components started in December 2005. Sixm
| onths later the solution went live.
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http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php?id=402526525&rid=-50
Australian state snubs Linux and Vista for 100,000 PCs
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| Talk about new desktop operating systems may be at an all-time high,
| but the government of Australian state Queensland has no intention
| to progress from the six-year-old Windows XP for more than 100,000
| computers to be purchased over the next three years.
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http://www.techworld.nl/idgns/2963/australian-state-snubs-linux-and-vista-for-100000-pcs.html
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