NewsForge: Realtor Group Houses All Kinds of Open Source Projects

Mar 14, 2002, 19:01 (1 Talkback[s])
(Other stories by Daniel P. Dern)

"The more than 800,000 real estate professionals who constitute the membership of the National Association of Realtors -- the largest trade association in the United States -- and the tens of millions of commercial and residential customers they serve probably won't realize it, but many will soon be benefiting from Open Source software, thanks to projects being done by the NAR's Center for Realtor Technology.

"Intriguingly, many of the center's projects involve Open Source software other than Linux and some, although they contain or are code, are intended as reference standards rather than as off-the-(virtual)-shelf software..."

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