Can Open Source Apps Find Strength in Numbers?
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| The OAS is not a circle-the-wagons response to competition,
| whether proprietary or open source. It's about creating a market
| and technical presence that enlarges the space each member occupies
| on its own. To reinfoce that aim, the members claim to welcome
| competitors who wish to join the alliance. The impression they
| give is of bona fide desire to build something much greater than
| themselves individually.
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http://www.intelligententerprise.com/blog/archives/2007/02/can_open_source.html
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Unisys Joins Newly Formed Open Solutions Alliance
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| "Our short term goals focus on increasing adoption of open
| source applications inside the business world," Klawans stated.
| When companies are using open source products, it's almost
| exclusively Linux and Apache -- sometimes PHP or Tomcat, he
| added. "It's never applications. That's a problem facing the
| open source industry."
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http://www.linuxinsider.com/rsstory/55772.html
New Open Source Group to Focus on Apps
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| The group, to be announced next week at the Open Solutions Summit in
| New York City, will likely include key open source application
| vendors CentricCRM, Adaptive Planning, SpikeSource, EnterpriseDB,
| Hypernic, OpenBravo and JasperSoft, according to an e-mail to
| internetnews.com. CentricCRM, EnterpriseDB, SpikeSource, and
| JasperSoft declined comment.
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http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3658336
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