Software industry executives sparred at Harvard Business School this weekend over open source procurement policies being adopted by some governments that could leave Microsoft in the cold. These key open source advocates also pointed to databases, security and storage as the next big categories ripe for commoditization.
Cyberposium 2004: Open Source Future Debated
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> “We agree [open source will grow],” said Jason Matusow, manager of Microsoft’s Shared Source Initiative. “There’s BSD code in Windows,” he said. “It’s going to be a hybrid.”
Good to see them acknowledge it.