Smart Partner: Inside the Magic Box | Linux Today

Smart Partner: Inside the Magic Box

Written By
JP
Jason Perlow
Nov 1, 2000

[ Thanks to Jason
Perlow
for this link. ]

More and more, software is being released as open source.
When are you going to take advantage of the riches?

“The open source movement has become one of the IT industry’s
Next Big Things. It’s a magic box throwing off pieces of wealth
here and there, from a software foundry somewhere. Sun Microsystems
weighed in with a huge donation to the box earlier this month,
releasing the 9 million+ lines of code that comprise StarOffice.
You’ve surely heard what Linux, FreeBSD, Apache, Sendmail, Perl and
Samba can do for you and your customers. Here’s an update on
“what’s in the box” these days.”

Complete
Story

JP

Jason Perlow

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