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Ten Leading Open Source Innovators

2007/02/21 - Datamation

Gartner analyst George Weiss opines that just 12-18 months ago, there were still questions about whether open-source business models were sustainable. Now, no such questions remain. Open source is becoming so pervasive that big proprietary vendors are not just embracing open source but now must be careful not to be seen as impeding the progress, fearing both developer and customer backlashes. Compared to the commercial offerings on the market, such as IBM Tivoli/HP OpenView, or BCM Patrol, [Zenoss] Core is significantly less expensive and requires no vendor lock-in, while providing an easy to use web-based GUI and template-based policies.

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