"Two relative newcomers awarded places on the New South Wales government's panel of preferred open-source suppliers have denied their appointments were a token gesture.
"The state named Solutions First and Systems Integration Services (SIS) on its open-source panel for government agencies along with heavyweights such as IBM, Sun Microsystems, Red Hat and Novell. While both Sydney-based companies are relative newcomers to the industry and have around 11 employees each, the similarities end there..."
