VNUnet: Open Source is the Route to Collaboration

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Jul 18, 2003

“Linux is increasingly hard to ignore, but it’s only one part of
the open source software (OSS) debate.

“OSS allows businesses to create standardised working practices,
and tailored ‘ecosystem’ models, so that vertical markets can
collaborate in a way that hasn’t been possible before.

“It effectively creates an ‘Internet of Things’, where many
different devices will collaborate and transact together.

“Supporting this requires non-differentiated standardised
software which performs many more tasks than the relatively simple
content management software handled by the OSS that created the
world wide web…”

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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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