Federal government chief technology officer John Sheridan said two factors were combining to drive the popularity of the Drupal content management system at the expense of proprietary software: the emergence of commercial entities able to give government the confidence to use open source, and the increasing cost and complexity of proprietary software.
Addressing a Forrester Research CIO Summit in Sydney recently, Sheridan said previous resistance to open source was gone.
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