Death Blow to Proprietary Software?

From: Stanley Long <slong@customcpu.com>
Date: Sun May 02 2004 - 23:03:59 AKDT

OT: Death Blow to Proprietary Software?
Yahoo! Message Boards: SCOX

http://finance.messages.yahoo.com/bbs?.mm=FN&action=m&board=1600684464&tid=cald&sid=1600684464&mid=129368
And a snip from a Wall Street Journal Article by Lee Gomes:
" The men say U.S. companies have all sorts of talented programmers on
staff, and could easily match, or exceed, the quality of the code from
the best-known software companies. Their ultimate goal is to allow
companies to spend less of their time and money on fairly generic
software, much of which brings no specific business advantage, and more
working on projects that will bring clear benefits to their business.

Alorie Gilbert "The CIOs strike back"
April 29, CNET News.com
http://news.com.com/2008-7343-5201835.html

The Securities Industry Middleware Council, Inc.
Re: Open Source for the Securities Industry
    About Project Avalanche
http://www.simc-inc.org/archive0304/opensource/speakers/avalanche.htm
John Schmidt, the Best Buy executive in charge of AppTalk, says his
company was willing to give it away because it expects to benefit from
the additional improvements made to the program from the others using
it. Those improvements could also be donated back to the Avalanche
library, a technique common in the open-source software world.

AVALANCHE
Corporate Information Technology Cooperative
        http://ibsmmap002.go-integral.net/

jostens -- Best Buy -- Born -- integral

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