As governments across Australia debate the ramifications of open source software, the New South Wales (NSW) state Department of Commerce has set up an open source evaluation project involving some 40 agencies.
Commercial real estate agent CB Richard Ellis Pty. Ltd. has implemented an IPSec VPN in preference to dedicated leased lines for its network of branch offices.
Government departments in the state of South Australia will be required to use open source software in preference to proprietary software if a bill proposed by Democrat Ian Gilfillan is passed into law.
A leading girls' school in the state of Victoria has successfully completed a beta trial of expandable resilient networking (XRN) technology in what is claimed to be the first such implementation in Australia.