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Open Source Forcing Shift in Software Buying

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the open-source-good-for-the-digestion-also dept.

LISNews writes "Network World Has An Interesting article on recent buyouts and how they might change the open source landscape. They say moves by Oracle and IBM means corporate buyers should think carefully about future projects before making deployment decisions. It remains to be seen how these acquiring vendors will treat their new open source assets. Users are watching with caution. As more open source companies get gobbled up they say that the open source community likely would develop alternatives to fill the gap."

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  1. IBM should buy out this application by bogaboga · · Score: 1, Troll
    The office application EI Office http://www.evermoresw.com/weben/index.jsp and open source the code. It is better than anything in the OSS world and even faster then OpenOffice.org 2.0.

    If this ever happened Linux will have got a leg in the Office suite world.