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Revaluing Deployment Of Open Source Software
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The government's policy of open source software (OSS) preference that excludes commercial software from consideration may also exclude 85 percent of the information technology (IT) channel business activity, according to a report. The report by the Initiative for Software Choice (ISC), citing the European software market, said the initial annual loss in business opportunity was estimated to be around US$49 billion. "Any decline in government spending would have ripple effects on the economy that might be two to three times greater than the initial direct effect," said ISC in the report which was undertaken in collaboration with Nathan Associates Inc, an international economic consulting firm.
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