With the success of companies like MySQL, JBoss, Cygnus and SleepyCat, open source software has introduced major changes to the way corporate IT adopts new technology. Yet open source business practices have a long way to go before the industry as a whole is fully embraced by CIOs.
In particular, I believe that the patchwork quilt of licenses and business practices among open-source vendors is a major barrier to enterprise adoption of open source. Vendor standardization on a simple and commercially More»

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