"Product support and open standards were just two of the topics that sparked heated debate on open-source and software development among panellists during ITJourno’s Kickstart 2005 event over the weekend.
"Peter Fletcher, managing director at Sybase Australia, said open-source was not a new phenomenon, and the release of open-source versions of operating systems such as Open Solaris and ideas like distributed computing or grid computing, were evolutions of concepts almost 25 years old..."
