IDC: Open source, SaaS top disruptors in Asia
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| Daphne Chung, research manager for infrastructure and middleware
| software at IDC Asia-Pacific, noted that as much as 83 percent of
| the US$15 billion Asia-Pacific enterprise software market is now
| exposed to open-source software.
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http://www.zdnetasia.com/news/software/0,39044164,62007650,00.htm
Related:
Too late to discredit open source, advocates say
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| "It's too late," exclaimed Winston Damarillo, founder and
| chairman of software development firm Exist Global, in an
| interview with Computerworld Philippines. "Open source
| is all over the place."
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| [...]
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| Anson Uy, president of Touch Solutions (a Red Hat Linux company),
| earlier on broke the news to Computerworld Philippines about the
| alleged "funded missions" by some software firms to discredit open
| source, although he did not identify any company.
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| Anson revealed among the top three actions against FOSS are being
| done through "sponsored studies, piracy of open source developers,
| and bold press releases."
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http://www.linuxworld.com/news/2007/030607-too-late-to-discredit-open.html?fsrc=rss-linux-news
http://tinyurl.com/2bj969
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