"Charles Brenner entered the open-source realm several years ago the way most others do: rolling out Linux in an effort to save a few dollars.
"'We started a couple of years ago, having been introduced through Linux and then Apache and then kind of up through the stack,' said Brenner, vice president of the Boston-based Fidelity Center for Applied Technology, a unit of Fidelity Investments. 'Then we wanted to see if we could leverage the power of open source for a higher level of different applications. The rationale? We came to the table around the idea of saving money--just the simple stuff, no license fee...'"
