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NSW Office of State Revenue CIO reflects on five successful years of open source

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“CIO David Kennedy recently spoke to CIO to reflect on
the challenges and achievements the government agency has had with
open source technology and to offer advice to other CIOs on how to
develop a successful open source strategy.

“Kennedy says open source technology is here to stay and the
real challenge facing CIOs lies in delivering services around
them.

“”Not all open source coders are fanatics,” Kennedy says. “Open
source is worth considering because if it fits the purpose in the
whole ‘value-for-money’ equation, entertain the idea. Look at Web
servers — Apache is ahead and so too is Firefox with Web
browsers.””

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