Open source unlocks options for many small-to-medium sized businesses (LinuxWorld)

[Posted September 20, 2006 by cook]

LinuxWorld looks at the increasing use of Linux and open-source software in a number of small companies. "Lamonica deployed an open source monitoring system from GroundWork and says that moving forward he’ll weigh open source options along with commercial software packages in any buying decision. “We’re past the point in time where we have to say, ‘Well, I won’t get fired if I buy Cisco,’ or ‘I won’t get fired if I buy Microsoft.’ I think that fear has gone away and open source has matured a great deal so that now people are no longer afraid of it,” he says."

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