NewsForge: Jigsaw Puts Together Open Collaborative Database

"The open source philosophy is popular enough that it is becoming a marketing cliche for some companies that don't have anything to do with software production. Take Jigsaw, for example--not Jigsaw the open source Java Web server, but Jigsaw, the business contacts database.

"Jigsaw was created by a salesman for salespeople. A business contact database helps sellers and recruiters by providing them with current phone numbers, addresses, and email addresses for the people they want to be able to reach..."

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