Seven open source business strategies for competitive advantage
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| Open source presents a large potential competitive advantage for hardware
| and software vendors, and vendors of complementary or substitute services.
| Linux has contributed greatly to the adoption and success of OSS.
| Companies such as IBM, HP, Red Hat, Oracle, and recently, Novell, have
| invested in, and legitimized the use of Linux for enterprise applications
| -- including datacenter operations.
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| Linux-related services deliver more than $1 billion in annual revenue to
| both IBM and HP. Oracle strongly promotes and likewise derives revenue
| from the Linux platform, with the so-called "unbreakable Linux" guarantee.
| In an attempt to catch the Linux wave, companies such as Computer
| Associates and Peoplesoft are porting their applications to Linux on
| ambitious timeframes.
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