Computerworld Singapore: Open Source for Governments

“More and more countries are embracing the collaborative model
of open source on a national level to fend off caged IT models. The
Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore’s (IDA) Technology
Group has positioned Linux as a medium term technology bet, which
means one to three years to mass adoption. According to IDA,
software procurement decisions in the public sector continue to be
based on value-for-money and fit-for-purpose, and do not prefer nor
exclude open source software in their tender specifications and
evaluations. The public sector currently has a heterogeneous
environment and Linux Server operating system is widely used in the
government. Government agencies such as the Ministry of Defence are
already using open source software…”

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