Tuesday, January 03, 2006

A Watershed for Open Source - BusinessWeek

According to a recent Business Week article FOSS "now poses a legitimate threat to the established software giants." And: "According to a new study by consulting firm Optaros, 87% of organizations are now using open-source software".

It lists the five biggest open-source events of 2005 as:

1. Red Hat finally proves it can make money from free software.
2. Sun Microsystems open sources everything -- except Java.
3. Motorola bets big on mobile Linux.
4. Firefox goes mainstream.

5. Venture capitalists wake up to open source.


Read more at BusinessWeek...

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