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Linux Scales New Heights

  Date:Dec 23 2002

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The creeping legitimacy of open source was given a big boost in 2002 when major vendors including IBM, Oracle and Sun Microsystems pledged support. On the surface, it seems like the vendors are just thumbing their nose at Microsoft. But something big is at stake here. By offering customized services for open-source software, vendors stand to lock in customers on service—a much more lucrative market than software licenses.


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