A Watershed for Open Source (Business Week)

[Posted December 29, 2005 by corbet]

Business Week looks back at 2005. "It was a year when CIOs signed off on open-source projects, a big change from previous years when that happened only after low-level engineers started such projects on their own initiative. It was a year when venture capitalists woke up to the new business opportunities of open source. It was a year when open source was the word on the lips of not just early adopters but of an early majority. According to a new study by consulting firm Optaros, 87% of organizations are now using open-source software, somewhere."

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