OpenSource, is it the future?
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| Many companies are becoming more and more open to Open Source. Microsoft
| has recently invited Mozilla developers to its campus to help port Firefox
| and Thunderbird to Vista, Sun is working hard on OpenSolaris and
| OpenOffice, and there has been a lot of speculation currently about it Open
| Sourcing Java, Linux is closing in on Microsoft market share, and is posing
| a serious threat to Microsoft among server operating systems...
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| What is the Open Source problem? The answer is rather simple: Little, or
| no revenue. With no capital, a certain application can not be marketed
| properly, probably the reason why Miscrosoft still has a larger market
| share than Linux, why more people use Internet Explorer than Firefox, or
| why more people use Outlook than Thunderbird. Those more used
| applications are better marketed, in fact, some of them come bundled with
| the most popular piece of software, Microsoft Windows. Is that unfair? It
| is, Microsoft put Netscape out of business because of this, in the end,
| they are a monopoly, and they want it all.
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http://www.businessclock.com/2006/08/27/opensource-is-it-the-future/
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