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Massachusetts Software Council on Open Source; By Paul Gillin 		Mail this story
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Open source software has clearly turned the corner in the enterprise and is now seated at the table with the software elite. Open source represents the transition of power from the vendor to the user, OSS will nearly quadruple as a percentage of software spending over the next four years. While that's still a relatively small percentage

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henke54 ·
Robert Sutor from IBM : "With all the recent activity around document formats and the strong leadership position taken by Massachusetts, I'm writing to you to reaffirm IBM's full support for the OASIS OpenDocument Format for Office Applications (ODF) standard. IBM, with our nearly 5000 employees in Massachusetts, is pleased to continue our active participation in the open, community-driven OASIS standardization process as well as our support for this important global standard in an upcoming version of our IBM Workplace product. Massachusetts is one of the epicenters of IBM software innovation, which will continue to be a key growth engine for our company. Lotus, Rational and Ascential all call the Commonwealth home and are developing the next generations of customer solutions based on open standards." http://consortiuminfo.org/newsblog/blog.php?ID=1780

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