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Fry Inc. has been using Microsoft Corp. software to design, develop and host e-commerce sites during much of the past eight years. But that's expected to change.
The Ann Arbor, Mich., company, whose clients include retailers Eddie Bauer, Crate & Barrel and Brookstone, tomorrow plans to launch a Java-based offering called Open Commerce Platform that carries no licensing fee for the customer. And Fry is happy to run it on freely available open-source technologies such as the Linux operating system, Tomcat application server and Apache Web server.
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