Giving away software makes good sense for Sun Publication: Guardian Date: Feb 21 2008 Reporter: Tim Anderson Five years ago, Sun Microsystems was "staring death in the face", says Greg Papadopoulos, now its chief technology officer. It had just lost $2.72bn (£1.4bn) on revenues of $11.4bn. He says: "We thought, the whole world is changing to this." By "this" he means open source software: "You can't help but look at any student coming out of college, or a startup, or what's happening inside the IT departments, and not run into [the web server] Apache and Linux [operating system] and MySQL [database] and PHP [web-scripting language]." Each of which is free, open-source software Read full article Read full article in new window See other articles by Tim Anderson See other articles published by Guardian Today's headlines Headlines for Feb 21, 2008
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