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[News] Businesses Turn to Free Software Due to Crisis

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Why Recession Is Causing Enterprises to Rethink Open-Source Strategy

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| Open-source software and middleware, which is now populating every part of 
| modern data centers, has always had to fight a reputation—deserved or 
| undeserved—of being simply too "Wild West" for many enterprises.  
| 
| Not so anymore, Alfresco's general manager for the Americas, Matt Asay, told 
| a near full-house audience in his opening remarks at the sixth annual Open 
| Source Business Conference here at the Palace Hotel.  
| 
| Alfresco, started up in 2005 by Documentum co-founder John Newton and John 
| Powell, former chief operating officer of Business Objects, provides an 
| enterprise-ready open-source CMS (content management system).  
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http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Linux-and-Open-Source/Why-Recession-is-Causing-Enterprises-to-Rethink-Open-Source-Strategy-877743/?kc=rss


Related:

No Recession at Red Hat

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| It is flattering to be mentioned, Mr. Whitehurst said, but he noted that
| corporate customers and the industry benefit from what he called Red
| Hat’s “Switzerland status” — not being a province of one of the major powers
| in the technology industry.
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http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/03/27/no-recession-at-red-hat/


Microsoft sees slide in profits

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7366106.stm
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