Archive for August, 2009

This report looks at the state of OSS in local government.

Full Report

Some headlines from the survey:

• 64% believe their council needs to increase its use of open source software (27% agreeing strongly)
• Around half say their council will increase its open source use by 2011
• 370 local government open source deployments identified
• Software licensing costs represent 30-40% of some councils IT budgets
• Why do councils go open source? 75% put lower cost as #1 factor
• Office software is where open source will impact most in local government over the next three years
• 65% believe perceptions of open source being ‘too risky’ stops councils from using open source more widely.