CNET News: Open Source's Next Frontier

"Open-source software, increasingly popular with budget-conscious companies, is beginning to expand into a new area: The lucrative infrastructure-software market dominated by industry giants such as Microsoft.

"Individual open-source database and other applications are already popular. Now two open-source projects have launched efforts to assemble 'stacks' of software applications that offer an open-source equivalent to commercial software from Microsoft, Oracle, BEA Systems and others..."

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