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Will major vendors dilute open source? (Network World)
Network World looks
at recent acquisitions of free software companies. "'I believe
what will really determine the success or failure of commercial firms
purchasing open source vendors is the extent to which they can keep the key
developers,' says Barry Strasnick, CIO at CitiStreet, a benefits management
company in Quincy, Mass. 'One of the main reasons that CitiStreet likes to
deal with vendors such as JBoss is that our senior technical staff can deal
with their technical staff, instead of having to deal with useless layers
in between,' he says."
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