Computerworld Australia: Victorian Govt Warms to Open Source Development

"Victorian government departments are increasingly contracting local open source development services for custom applications written in Java to leverage community contributions and raise the standard of software.

"Both the Department of Infrastructure and Department of Sustainability and Environment are clients of Melbourne-based software development services company Groupware Consulting, and are using its custom software built with open source components like the Spring development framework and MySQL database..."

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