Open Source Apps Broadening the Human Resources World
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| Software is ultimately composed of congealed ideas, so ideas are very
| important in the minds of software developers. The key to market power in
| the software industry lies in the minds of developers. Fashion plays a
| role too; some ideas are fashionable and some are not. The idea, or
| philosophy, of open source is powerful, frictionless, and seductive.
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| Linux and other open source Latest News about open source applications
| are finding increasing acceptance in the global marketplace by small
| and large companies alike. Statistics on the growth of a few open source
| programs -- like Apache (a Web server), Linux (an operating system),
| FreeBSD (an operating system), and PostgreSQL (a database server) --
| demonstrate this. This column considers why open source is growing so
| fast, and what it means to human resources professionals.
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