Small Player Scores Big Open-Source Win
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| In the scrappy open-source software world--where software is developed
| in the open, rather than within the confines of corporate
| patents--successes are hard-won and often come in small chunks.
| Typically it's a few thousand government employees in Munich,
| Brasilia, or Amsterdam who begin using the Linux operating system
| or the Open Office suite of business programs, shunning comparable
| offerings from the likes of Microsoft.
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| But a deal announced Feb. 26 was on an entirely different scale.
| 1&1 Internet, the world's largest Web hosting company, said it
| will roll out 1 million e-mail accounts this year running on
| Open-Xchange's open-source software.
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http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/feb2007/tc20070226_455515.htm?chan=technology_technology+index+page_more+of+today's+top+stories
http://tinyurl.com/2jbtpz
Related:
Zimbra hits 6 million paid users
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| Six million user is HUGE, even if they were only getting $1/user,
| given that this is the company's first year in business. Would you
| be happy with six million customers in your first year of business?
| Of course you would.
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http://weblog.infoworld.com/openresource/archives/2007/01/zimbra_hits_6_m.html
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