PHP event: Open source accommodation stressed
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| Rather than fighting the open source wave, commercial IT vendors do
| what they must: try to ride that wave.
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| Panelists representing companies such as Microsoft, Sun
| Microsystems, IBM, and Oracle were queried at the Zend/PHP
| Conference & Expo on Tuesday about commercial involvement in
| the open source arena.
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| "It seems to us from where we sit that there's really no
| choice," said Tim Bray, a Web -oriented generalist at Sun and
| a co-inventor of XML. "A substantial portion of the market has
| made it clear with their wallets that they want to deploy and
| run open source software."
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| "We can't go back. It's too late," Bray said.
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