CIO India: Virtualization and the Impact of Open Source | Linux Today

CIO India: Virtualization and the Impact of Open Source

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Jul 6, 2006

“What has caused the effective price of virtualization to head
toward zero — and how?

“In contrast to many who seem to feel that open source and
proprietary software operate in two parallel but separate universes
— that open source is used by people who can’t afford ‘real’
software, while proprietary commercial software is for
organizations that need reliability, scalability, and all the other
‘abilities’ — I believe that open source is already
challenging the proprietary software world…”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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