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Sunday, July 22, 2007

Misys gambles on open source revolution

British software group Misys is expected to announce a major strategic gamble this week - giving its products away for free.

Under new American management, the company is planning to embrace the "open source" movement, releasing a software code that can be copied or modified by other programmers.

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Posted by Brian Cleland at 4:49 AM
Labels: businessmodels, marketing, UK

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