One Company's Search For The Perfect Open Source Software
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| Finding an open source option wasn't the easy way, but H&R
| Block met that goal.
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http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=197002955&cid=RSSfeed_IWK_All
Hartford Borrows Open Source Concept
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| James McGovern believes in open source software. And he believes
| in open source techniques, which his employer, The Hartford
| insurance company, is testing to develop a custom,
| industry-specific application.
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http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=197002959&cid=RSSfeed_IWK_All
How To Tell The Open Source Winners From The Losers
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| There are 139,834 open source projects under way on SourceForge,
| the popular open source hosting site. Five years from now, only a
| handful of those projects will be remembered for making lasting
| contributions--most will remain in niches, unnoticed by the rest
| of the world. For every Linux, Apache, or MySQL, dozens of other
| open source efforts fizzle out.
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http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=EDNR252PTFGNUQSNDLPSKH0CJUNN2JVN?articleID=197002953
PostgreSQL Shows How Open Source Support Can Be Hard To Come By
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| PostgreSQL, an outgrowth of the original Ingres project at the
| University of California at Berkeley, has had ups and downs. But
| since 2000, it has been one of the two most successful open source
| database systems, second to MySQL. Its uneven pattern of sustaining
| support options, however, should be a warning to open source
| shoppers to proceed cautiously.
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http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=197002954&cid=RSSfeed_IWK_All
There are similar issues in the proprietary world, but they are worse. A
company that goes bankrupt no longer maintains the code and does not give it
away to the customer, either. As support is a monopoly and there are lockin
(high exit barriers), it tends to be poor as well.
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