Q&A: Sun Microsystems' James Gosling, the father of Java
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| Open source has generally worked really well for us. The use of
| Java on Linux, for example, is really high. There's no central
| Linux body of course, it's a tag group of individuals.
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http://www.cbronline.com/article_news.asp?guid=D3E19B80-07C0-4C2C-BE8F-C468F56EA78C
Centric CRM Receives Funding From Intel Capital
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| According to Gartner's published forecast, "CRM Software,
| Worldwide, 2006-2011," "CRM market growth remained strong
| through 2006, fueled by continued business confidence
| generating solid vendor performance..."
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http://new.marketwire.com/2.0/rel.jsp?id=741837&sourceType=1
This article suggests bringing the open source model to governments:
Open-Source Government
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| In the world of software, there are open-source systems and there
| are closed-source systems. Open-source systems (such as Linux or
| Mediawiki) allow anyone to submit bits of source code to the
| project. The whole world collaborates upon it. Everyone can
| see what everyone else has submitted. There are no secret,
| proprietary parts. Open source projects are fully transparent.
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mark-jeffrey/opensource-government_b_51897.html
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