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Open source and the future of vendor-free IT

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In reading through IDC's excellent report, "2007 Industry Adoption of Open Source Software, Part 2: Project Adoption," analyst Matt Lawton stumbles across an intriguing observation in open-source software adoption. He apparently believes it is a weakness of the current open-source landscape, but I believe it is a strength.

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Comments (2)

beirwin ·
I like the article's conclusion: "Since when must enterprises lock themselves into vendors forever? That's the 20th Century. We're in the 21st Century now. The Customer Century."
techiem2 ·
You mean...actually make business acquisition decisions based on what your business actually needs, not based on what some company says you need because they keep changing their process/formats and force you to go along with them? What a thought!

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