Computer Business Reviews: Open Source Services Come of Age

"A sure sign of a maturing market is when vendors stop talking about products and start talking about services and 'solution stacks.' It can be indicative that the marketing team have taken over from the engineers in charge of presenting the company to the outside world, but also shows that customers are demanding a more professional approach towards the deployment of the technology.

"This is certainly the case in the open source software market, where a clutch of new solutions and services companies have recently sprung up to guide enterprise customers through the difficulties of open source software deployment..."

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