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CNET News: Start-up Teams to Push Open-Source Boundaries

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Jul 24, 2006

[ Thanks to Patrick Hifer for this
link. ]

“A handful of start-ups are trying to upset the stodgy world of
enterprise systems management software with open source and a more
democratic approach to setting industry standards.

“The Open Management Consortium, founded in May, is a grouping
of small companies seeking to bring open-source business models to
systems management, an area dominated by larger companies…”


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