Perspective

Time for a little perspective on the Open Source industry in Australia… Yesterday, the ABS shipped some findings about digital game development companies:

At end June 2007, there were 45 businesses in Australia involved in the provision of digital game development services. These businesses employed over 1,400 people and generated a total income of $136.9m which represented an average of $3m per business.

Total expenses incurred for the same period were $128.5m. Almost two-thirds of this amount was attributable to labour costs ($83.8m).

During 2006-07 digital game development services businesses recorded an operating profit before tax of $8.5m, and an operating profit margin of 6.2%.

Compare and contrast. :-)

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This entry was written by Jeff Waugh, posted on April 9, 2008 at 15:11, filed under General and tagged abs, australia, census, development, gaming, industry, open source, report, waugh partners. Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. Post a comment or leave a trackback: Trackback URL.

2 Comments

  1. ethana2
    Posted April 9, 2008 at 17:46 | Permalink

    No telling how many art packs I’d buy if I could use them all with CrystalSpace…

  2. taj
    Posted April 9, 2008 at 20:50 | Permalink

    I hadn’t seen your report before. Wow. That is truly fantastic.

    -Taj.

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