Australian NSW State Government makes Open Source Move
THE Australian NSW State Government has made official its push into open source, launching a $1.5 million deployment of what may be the state's largest-ever rollout of open source software on the desktop.
The NSW Roads and Traffic Authority traditionally a big Microsoft user is tipping savings of $2 million a year from the rollout of Sun Microsystems' Star Office package to registry managers and the Mozilla browser and email client to 1500 computers used by the authority's front counter staff in vehicle registries across the state.
