[Discussioni] Newsscan

[Francesco Potorti`]

NSW MAKES OPEN SOURCE MOVE
     The New South Wales government has made official its push into open
source technology, launching a $AU1.5 million deployment of what may be the
state's largest-ever rollout of open source software on the desktop. The
deployment of the open source office productivity suite represents a real
threat to Microsoft's dominance of the desktop through its Office package.
The government's Roads and Traffic Authority has already indicated its
preference for open standards by installing Apple's iMac G4 across the
registries earlier this year. The rollout will be a limited deployment of
the software, with a further commercial rollout to half the organization's
7000 desktops promised over the next few years. (The Australian 24 Jun 2004)
http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,9939948%5E15306%5E%5Enbv%5E,
00.html