Cloud Computing to Fuel Open Source Explosion

“Berquist said the cloud computing model–of companies’ serving
applications over the Internet–requires vendors to spend large
amounts of cash buying and maintaining servers, telecoms
infrastructure and software such as operating systems, Web,
application and database servers to support their software as a
service (SaaS) operation.

“He added because SaaS vendors needed to invest in more hardware
and software than traditional software vendors–where applications
are sold to customers to install on their own machines–there was a
greater drive towards using open source operating systems, Web,
application and database servers, as opposed to more expensive
commercial alternatives.”

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