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SearchOpenSource: Hybrids: How Free+Fee OSS Models Put Vendor Support on Solid Ground

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Mar 6, 2006

Worries about the support provided by commercial open
source software (OSS) vendors turned up as a top adoption barrier
for IT managers we recently surveyed. Is that concern
well-founded?

Julie Hanna Farris: It’s a legitimate concern
because the market is so very much in its early stages. It’s much
the same as doing business with a young company, whether it’s open
source or not…”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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