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[News] Weak Economy Helps Free Software and Ziff-Davis Guides Migration to FOSS

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Recession-Proof Open Source

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| In a down economy, companies are more likely to view unprofitable software 
| assets as a waste of resources than as an opportunity for future profits. 
| Rather than destroying the software, one viable option is to release it as 
| open source, handing the maintenance burden to a community of volunteers. A 
| handoff like this requires care and guidance--you can't just toss a bundle of 
| code out under an open source license and expect it to fly. It's worth the  
| effort, though. At worst you will improve your company's reputation as a 
| patron of open source (a strategy that has served IBM  ( IBM -  news  -  
| people ) extremely well over the years). And for a potential best scenario, 
| look to the wildly successful Mozilla Firefox, which grew out of the 
| unprofitable Netscape Navigator during the dot-com bust.         
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http://www.forbes.com/2009/07/14/open-source-software-technology-breakthroughs-software.html

How to Bring Open-Source Software into the Enterprise

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| Open-source software has gained growing acceptance in the enterprise. Once 
| enterprises put in place the same governance, policy and support processes 
| around open-source software as they do with proprietary software, there is no 
| limit to how much open-source software they can bring into their 
| organization. Here, Knowledge Center contributor Carol J. Rizzo offers five 
| tips on how to bring open-source software into your organization in a way 
| that maps to your corporate risk factors, making open-source software no more 
| or less of a risk than proprietary software.       
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http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Linux-and-Open-Source/How-to-Bring-OpenSource-Software-into-the-Enterprise/


Recent:

Ballmer Goes Nuts Again, Gets Confused As to What Type of Venue He's At

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| Not to shit on Ballmer more than we already have, but man, is he a horrible
| public speaker. If Microsoft wants to revamp their image, it starts from the
| top
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http://gizmodo.com/5314471/ballmer-goes-nuts-again-gets-confused-as-to-what-type-of-venue-hes-at
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