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Forecast: Cost Cutting Will Drive Open Source Growth
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| "We've seen a tremendous growth in interest from companies who really feel
| uncomfortable with the price hikes and the pricing practices of the big
| players in the proprietary world," said Ingres CEO Roger Burkhardt in an
| interview. "Now that budgets are being squeezed, we see a tremendous interest
| in the economic model that we offer."
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http://campustechnology.com/articles/2009/08/10/forecast-cost-cutting-will-drive-open-source-growth.aspx
Career Watch: Job growth could be more robust away from the coasts
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| One other area to consider: open source. Having strong knowledge of
| open-source alternatives to purchased products can give you an edge over
| competitors that are only offering packaged software. Giving your customers
| options, especially lower-cost options, should help you get work. Open-source
| solutions are going to be increasingly viable in the future.
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http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/341491/Career_Watch?taxonomyId=
xTuple 3.3 open source ERP debuts
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| Version 3.3 also allows customers to export to OpenOffice from any screen and
| the ability to copy one item, row or entire table to the clipbopard. One can
| export all displays to OpenOffice document formats, as well as HTML and
| comma-separated text Support for Qt version 4.5, now available under the
| Lesser GNU Public License (LGPL),â according to the release.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=4636
Recent:
Municipality saves 1 million per year
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| Michel van der Linden is head of IT in Municipality of Gribskov in Denmark.
| In this article he explains how the municipality changed from Microsoft
| Office to OpenOffice some years ago. Initially they saved about two million
| Danish Kroner and later one million per year.
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http://lodahl.blogspot.com/2009/04/municipality-saves-1-million-per-year.html
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