Vendor Support Key to Big-Business Adoption of Open Source

At LinuxWorld, Cendant, Citigroup, and E-Trade talk about what swayed them to open source, and what it'll take for them to expand its use. Open-source software and operating systems are increasingly touted as a way for companies to take greater control of their IT environments, in the process controlling the cost and content of their operations. Yet it's clear that open source represents different things to different companies, depending on the company's size and the investments it has already made in information technology. At a LinuxWorld event in New York on Wednesday, three companies laid out the different reasons and ways they've pursued open-source strategies.

Source: InformationWeek

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