“More vendors providing source code free of charge; working
with it requires adjustments from IT staff.”
“The business freeware and open source software movement, which
began as a trickle with the Linux operating system, has burgeoned
into what some observers say could soon become a tsunami.”
“More and more companies, for example, are providing their
source code – either including it as part of the package they sell
or by making it available to anyone on the Internet – as a way to
expand the market for their products or services and to allow
others to build on it.
“I suspect the Linux wave was just the beginning of the open
source code movement,” says Sandra Potter, senior analyst for Linux
services at the Boston-based Aberdeen Group Inc. “I think we’re
going to see more of it.”