What Does the Economic Crisis Mean for the Tech Sector?

[ Thanks to Ron Millerr for this link. ]

"You would think that current economic climate would bode well for open source products. When your budget is lean, free begins to look pretty good. Cloud vendors and the growing virtualization market should do well too. With less money available, it makes a lot of sense to let the vendor deal with infrastructure and to reduce investments in your own data center."

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