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Free Software Increasingly a Benefit to Business IT

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Mark Rais
Apr 29, 2007

“MR: It is my hope that this interview will help
encourage other organisations to consider the benefits of free
software use. So let’s begin with the reasons Egressive Ltd.
decided to utilise free software for development
solutions?

“RF: There are a number of reasons. Free software tends to
adhere to Open Standards, making integration easier. In some cases,
we have found that free software is the only ‘glue’ available to
join disparate systems…”

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