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Companies Lag Govt in Open Source

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“Government is increasingly using open source solutions, or
hybrid models that combine it with some proprietary software, while
commercial organisations are still proprietary-oriented, says David
Jacobs, Consequent technical director.

“Speaking at a Cape IT Initiative debate on open source, Jacobs
said that as open source standards are adopted, especially by the
large players, other organisations will adopt the
technology…”

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