CIO India: Virtualization and the Impact of Open Source

"What has caused the effective price of virtualization to head toward zero -- and how?

"In contrast to many who seem to feel that open source and proprietary software operate in two parallel but separate universes — that open source is used by people who can't afford 'real' software, while proprietary commercial software is for organizations that need reliability, scalability, and all the other 'abilities' — I believe that open source is already challenging the proprietary software world..."

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