InfoWorld: Startups Vie to Make Linux More Attractive with Bundled Offerings

"Integrating open source applications is a task daunting enough to lead some companies toward proprietary products. To that end, a several startups this week revealed plans to offer prebuilt, certified solutions so customers have fewer integration migraines.

"Greenplum, JasperSoft and Kinetic Networks all banded together on Wednesday to offer a BI reporting, data warehousing, and ETL (extraction, transformation, and loading) combination, while ActiveGrid set its flagship prebuilt LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, and Perl/PHP/Python) offerings to sail..."

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