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ORLANDO, Fla. -- This was the title of the last session I attended at GigaWorld 2004 last week. It was led by Forrester analysts John Rymer and Uttam Narsu and was run as a roundtable discussion with heavy audience participation. A majority of the 30 people in the room said they had tried at least one open source program at some point, but it was apparent that this was not necessarily a gathering of open source boosters.

Recently I began a process to convert a small office of ten staff over to Linux, after implementing two servers and a shop floor machine for over a year.

The company says it has taken three years more than 1500 Linux programmers and developers and 37 key hardware manufacturers and researchers to write L OS.

Once foreign intelligence agencies of other countries realize we are doing that, they just put a few people in the Linux project and start adding some code in

Open-source proponents and a Microsoft official had varying perspectives on the value of the open-source model during separate discussions at the 2004 SIIA

Linux creator Linux Torvalds and Andrew Tanenbaum, the man who created Minix for the study of operating systems and software at Vrije University in Amsterdam

Thomas Edison claimed that genius is one percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration. Likewise, James Hughes, senior fellow at StorageTek, discovered the same to be true when he had the idea for an advanced encryption technology standard that protects data at rest. It took Hughes 10 years from that first inspiration for an encryption standard before he created what is now called P1619 technology.

Java Desktop System, or JDS, is built around Linux, the computer operating system created by volunteer engineers and represented by a cute penguin mascot named

A study questioning the origins of Linux states that the open-source software frequently is taken or adapted from material owned by other companies and

Digital audio players running Linux have typically left configuration and support to the geeky masses. But now, with the latest