Open Source ... Where the Money Is
Wired Magazine, May 1999, page 140.
Good article on open source by Andrew Leonard.
Open Season. -- Why an industry of cutthroat competition is suddenly deciding good karma is great business. --
Pages 144-145 ...
"Tour de Source, A Guide to the Start-Ups"
The list includes:
Caldera Systems, Linuxcare, Penguin Computing, The Puffin Group, Scriptics, AbiSource, Sendmail Inc, Cobalt Networks, Leverage Information Systems, The Linux Mall, Lutris Technologies, Whistle Communications, ArsDigita, C2Net, Red Hat Software, VA Research, Pacific HiTech, SuSE, Berkeley Software Design Inc, Cyclades, Walnut Creek and Cygnus Solutions.
The article also compares the cost of a 25-person LAN with open source software to one using Microsoft's products. Answer: $5,544.70 vs. MSFT's $21,453.
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