Does Open Source's Rise Spell The End Of Traditional Software Vendors? | Linux Today

Does Open Source’s Rise Spell The End Of Traditional Software Vendors?

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Matt Asay
Oct 3, 2013

After years of struggling to swim against the tides of open source and cloud computing, traditional software vendors are clearly under fire. At the same time, it’s also clear that open source is driving most of the big trends in technology today, from mobile to cloud to Big Data.

What isn’t clear, however, is that going forward all technology vendors will become Red Hat.

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Matt Asay

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