“Former Oracle Corp. President/COO Ray Lane, who is now an IT
venture capitalist with Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers,
recently brought together a panel of open source experts at the
Open Source Business Conference for two hours of candid commentary
on the state of the enterprise software industry and the impact of
open source.“Prior to the meeting, Lane had privately asked a few dozen CIOs
for their views on open source in the enterprise. While Lane didn’t
share the exact details of their concerns, he said in general, CIOs
expressed a great deal of angst about traditional enterprise
software…”
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