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[News] Open Source and Mainframes Hand-in-Glove

Mainframe programming and open source -- Where's the beef?

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| Open-source advocates often cite lower software prices, "power to the
| masses", or avoidance of vendor lock-in. However, a key value of open
| source is the ability of IT shops to tap into open source development and
| its methodologies to enhance applications. Open source and collaborative
| programming not only leverage programming power outside the enterprise
| or overseas, but also improve the quality of in-house proprietary
| programming, making not only business-critical applications but
| entire platforms much more effective.
| 
| [...]
| 
| Open source is steadily increasing its presence, from the bottom of
| the software stack up. Linux (operating systems), Netscape Navigator
| (browsers), and Apache (application servers) are now being joined by
| office automation suites, development tools (Eclipse), databases (mySQL,
| PostgreSQL, and Berkeley DB [now part of Oracle]), and now data
| integration tools (Jitterbit, aimed at bringing data integration to
| medium-sized firms). Developers -- especially open-source ones -- can
| use these solutions as class libraries that they can invoke in order
| to handle infrastructure across platforms.
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