Several governments have mandated that all their departmental technology deployments be based either partially or wholly on open source software (OSS). The move towards OSS in government is so prominent, that industry research firm Gartner predicts that by 2011 at least 25 per cent of domain-specific software in government offices around the world will be at least partially open source.

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