Ministry of Justice updates open-source policy

Posted by Sander_Marechal on Feb 13, 2008 12:42 PM EDT
ComputerWorld New Zealand; By Rob O'Neill
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The Ministry of Justice has added an extra policy covering total cost of ownership to its Open Source Adoption Paper, a paper described by New Zealand Open Source society President Don Christie as “groundbreaking”. The new policy says the ministry should make systems adoption and replacement decisions based on full lifecycle costs. The paper suggests TCOtool (www.tcotool.org), an open-source toolset, as a useful way to compare real costs.

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