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  • OSS guide backs government's "informed neutrality" procurement stance

    A new guide designed to help federal government agencies evaluate open-source products alongside their proprietary rivals is due to be completed and distributed by September, officials told ZDNet Australia today.

  • Open source in government: Forget support, focus on value

    While government departments remain concerned about the implications of using open source, successful projects have overcome that concern by simply demonstrating better value for money.

  • Oracle mostly backs Tanner on Web 2.0

    The Australian government's approach to information management has previously often been "grandiose" and overly simplistic, according to Oracle's Australian division, which today mainly backed comments by finance minister Lindsay Tanner that the government needed to adopt Web 2.0-style tools.

  • Townsville Port takes content management shipment

    Townsville Port Authority (TPA) has in the past few months bedded down a new content management system (CMS) implementation, aiming to improve information management and meet government compliance requirements.

  • Legal Aid WA polishes off content management

    Legal Aid Western Australia will shortly finish implementing a new Web-based content management system based on Hummingbird's Red Dot software, with the assistance of services group Alphawest.

  • Objective tops Tower for SA Health deal

    ASX-listed software company Objective has won a new electronic document and records management (EDRMS) contract with SA Health, leaving rival firm, Hewlett-Packard-owned Tower Software, eating its dust.

  • ASIC's $115m IT overhaul revealed

    The Australian Securities and Investment Commission (ASIC) today said it would shortly go to market for technology suppliers for a $115 million IT core systems refresh project that had been in limbo since the federal election in November last year.

  • Unisys wants AU$250k open source advocate

    The Australian arm of IT services multinational Unisys has placed an advertisement for an evangelist to plug open source software locally, with a potential pay packet of AU$250,000 per year.

  • Q&A: Acting Queensland CIO, Alan Chapman

    Alan Chapman, acting CIO for the Queensland government talks to ZDNet.com.au about what makes his job unique, technologies on the way and the biggest threat to his organisation.

  • AU government launches open source content system

    Senator Eric Abetz on Wednesday launched a free open source content management system (CMS) for use by government departments and not-for-profit organisations.

  • Aussie film archives launch ... and then crash

    The launch of Australian Screen today was met with an unfortunate fate: by 10am the site had crashed. The new site which serves excerpts of Australian film and television archives crashed once users -- primarily teachers and students -- began accessing the new service this morning.

  • Sun shines on Interwoven software

    Sun Microsystems has inked a deal to resell content management software made by Interwoven.

  • Department of Finance enters the Matrix

    The federal Department of Finance has flagged plans to more widely use the open source MySource Matrix content management system on government Web sites.

  • Microsoft-Novell pact doesn't dent Red Hat growth

    Red Hat is still the flavour of the month in the Linux market, despite Novell making some inroads after its controversial alliance with Microsoft.

  • Squiz bows to GPL pressure

    Local software vendor Squiz has re-licensed its MySource Matrix tool under the popular GNU General Public License, nearly two years after facing criticism the software's previous licence wasn't open enough.

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