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:CNET News: Can Open Source Win Big Business?
CNET News: Can Open Source Win Big Business?
Apr 14, 2003, 19 :00 UTC (2 Talkback[s]) (8863 reads)

(Other stories by Lisa M. Bowman)

[ Thanks to Jason Greenwood for this link. ]

"Getting Fortune 500 companies to adopt open source would be a lot easier if open-source advocates put their business hats on.

"That was the message from some Sun Microsystems and MySQL executives at the MySQL users conference here. Swedish company MySQL develops open-source database software and is making inroads into markets primarily dominated by companies such as Oracle, IBM and Microsoft.

"During a keynote speech Friday, Rick Cattell, deputy chief technology officer of software at Sun, said that offering great software doesn't guarantee success in the big-business market..."

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Open Source do not need to put on any bu ...   Another stupid Cnet article   
Bjorn Stadil
Apr 14, 2003, 21:13:42
 
The way I hear the Fortune 500 companies ...   The way I hear...   
Charles Hixson
Apr 14, 2003, 23:40:19
 
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