:DMReview: BI is Ready for Open Source--Is Open Source Ready for BI?
DMReview: BI is Ready for Open Source--Is Open Source Ready for BI? Aug 2, 2005, 19 :00 UTC (4 Talkback[s]) (8434 reads) (Other stories by Sam Mohamad)
"With its quiet emergence in the 1980s, the open source movement has followed a similar trajectory, eschewing marketing fanfare in favor of creating a more practical, democratic way to distribute technology. The open source revolution makes technology available to everyone and anyone--enabling the community to benefit from the creativity of the whole, resulting in a high quality product that is 'self-policed' by a group of committed contributors..."