Published at LXer:
When a genre of software is estimated to account for 15 percent of the total revenue generated by a given sector of the IT industry and that total is $A3.5 billion, then it is time to sit up and take notice. Which is what the government of the Australian state of Queensland has done. Queensland, which styles itself as the "smart state", has provided funding to research company Longhaus to "identify the current and growing capabilities within Queensland's ICT industry" of the open source sector.
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