Open Source Industry Australia

This guide was produced by the Australian Government Information Management Office (AGIMO). It is a companion document to A Guide to ICT Sourcing. Between them these publications aim to provide a basis for better ICT procurement decisions across the whole of the Australian Government.

The AGIMO site states: 

This Guide seeks to assist agencies by providing practical information and approaches for agencies to consider when assessing open source solutions. Risk management procedures and the different contractual considerations that can apply to open source software issues are addressed in the Guide, as are cost of ownership issues. Understanding cost of ownership issues for open source software is important because, under an open source model, costs are incurred at different phases of the implementation and operation of an information technology system.