Open-source on Windows the next big thing?
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| But Hecht is part of a growing wave of IT users opting for a third way
| some have dubbed WAMP (Windows, Apache, MySQL and Perl/Python/PHP). They
| say it provides the best of both worlds.
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| "It's a false but longtime perception [of] an either/or choice," said
| Bob Shimp, vice president of open-source for Oracle. In addition to
| pushing Linux as its preferred database platform, Oracle has snapped up
| a number of open-source vendors in the past nine months. "Commercial
| and open-source products are highly complementary," Shimp said. "Frankly,
| a lot of people in the open-source community have done themselves a
| disservice by painting things" as either/or decisions.
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| Although many open-source vendors continue to make products that work best
| on Linux, some are also questioning a decision to ignore the huge Windows
| market.
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| "As an open-source vendor, we believe in choice," said Ram Venkataraman,
| director of product management for JBoss. Half of JBoss' customers run
| Windows. And despite JBoss' acquisition by Linux vendor Red Hat earlier
| this year, Venkataraman said the company has no plans to cut out its
| Windows users.
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