Open-source adoption opens market
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| Industry experts say companies that ignore how open source can change
| their business do so at their own peril. For all types of companies,
| the mandate is change or die, said technology professionals during a
| Massachusetts Technology Leadership Council event earlier this month.
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| "Open source is fundamentally changing our company," said Bob Sutor,
| vice president of standards and open source at IBM, at the event.
| "Anyone saying 'This is the way we did it five years ago' is a dinosaur."
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| IBM, which employs 4,000 in Waltham, has 120 open source projects in
| the works, according to company officals.
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| At Oracle, which employs 700 in Burlington, open source is taken so
| seriously that the company gave Omar Tazi the title of "chief open source
| evangelist."
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| At Sun's Burlington office, which employs 2,400, the idea is the same.
| "Open source has become a central theme for our entire offering set," said
| Douglas Johnson, corporate standards program manager at Sun.
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| Linux maker Novell Inc. employs 700 in Burlington and just this past
| week announced a new open-source identity management project...
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| With few revenue indicators associated with open source, the market size
| is tough to gauge, said Johnson, but business has been brisk. "It's
| difficult to track open-source adoption," he said.
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