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The Calm Before the Open Source Storm
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| Companies who have previously relied upon software to generate revenue will
| see financial decline if they take the open source road. This decline
| however is to be short lived and in the long run will prove to be a power
| play that will pay off in the future and here is why.
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| SUN Microsystems is a company who had previously generated alot of revenue by
| selling hardware and the Solaris UNIX operating system. A while ago, SUN
| decided to take the leap toward the open source way of doing business. This
| has resulted in loss of revenue and declines in sales. I have read articles
| about the death of SUN on the New York Times website over the past few weeks.
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http://mr-oss.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=42&Itemid=39
Related:
Source of the revolution
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| According to Ghosh, the notional value of Europe's investment in
| free/libre or open source software (FLOSS) today is e22bn,
| representing 20.5pc of the region's total software investment.
| Spending on OSS stands at e36bn and accounts for 20pc of software
| expenditure in the US.
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http://www.siliconrepublic.com/news/news.nv?storyid=single8105
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