The Australian Government Information Office (AGIMO) has reported a healthy level of open source software (OSS) use within government agencies during the past year.

According to Brian Catto, director, architecture and emerging technologies at AGIMO, the agency’s annual ICT survey of agencies created under the Financial Management and Accountability Act 1997 found that almost 60 agencies were using open source software, with more than 750 open source implementations and 200 products in use.

“Open source is being used on many platforms including Windows, Solaris, Unix and Mac,” Catto said at the recent Open Source Developers Conference at the Australian National University in Canberra.

“Applications being used include Web platforms, Apache; operating systems, Linux; geospatial applications, GeoNetwork; and Web browsers, Firefox.”

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