Open source: a different approach to developing software
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| After two years, Burkus has decided to move on and will be
| replaced by Peter Eisentraut, another member of the
| PostgreSQL core team. This typifies the fluid nature of the
| open source community. People move from project to project
| as their interests dictate and this can act as a hedge
| against the burn-out that full-time coders seem to suffer
| from in closed source companies and offers much more
| freedom. "Typically, there is a lot of give and take. Very
| few people in the open source community are willing to be
| hired on or dictated to," Brockmeier says.
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| In terms of acquisitions, the open source movement is
| maturing and this has been marked by the growing string of
| acquisitions of smaller companies with bright ideas.
| Notably. Novell bought Platespin to simplify virtual server
| implementation, and Red Hat acquired Qumranet for its KVM
| (Kernel Virtual Machine) product for virtual machine
| deployment and management.
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http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2009/01/02/234037/open-source-a-different-approach-to-developing-software.htm
http://tinyurl.com/9df84v
Recent:
Using Open-Source Innovation Networks to Drive Collaborative
Software Development
http://www.cio.com/article/367213
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