Flow My Thoughts, The IT Professor Said

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http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/wo_lefkowitz072503.asp

Article recording an interview with Robert Lefkowitz who makes the point that open source software may be attractive for business not because of low cause of acquisition, but because the nature of the open source support community remarkably lowers TCO. Given an acceptable level of technical performance, this may indeed be a devastating weapon against the closed software paradigm represented by Microsoft.