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LinuxWorld Australia: Govt Agency Learns a Lesson in Open Source

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“Education.au, an IT government agency for education, has turned
to open source software to develop Web services for its flagship
portal.

“Owned by federal, state and territory IT ministers,
Education.au develops and manages online services that provide
information to aid teaching and research.

“The Adelaide-based agency runs the Education Network Australia
Web site, EdNA Online, a directory and database for Web-based
education resources.

“Formed in 1996, EdNA Online consists of 18,000 evaluated
resources, with 350,000 (linked) indexed resources, and receives
about 4.5 million hits per month, said education.au CEO Gerry
White…”


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