Open source is years behind commercial products, says Socitm president

Feb 27, 2009, 01:34 (7 Talkback[s])

"In Steel's experience, open source software development lags proprietary development by several years. "I don't think we could achieve the anytime, anywhere fixed and mobile infrastructure with telepresence we require for flexible and new ways of working using only open source," he said.:

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