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Re: Why Aren't Open Source Tools Being Considered?
Subject:Re: Why Aren't Open Source Tools Being Considered? From:"Mike O." <obie1121 -at- yahoo -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Fri, 19 Aug 2005 10:30:00 -0700 (PDT)
At this moment there seems to be a lot of startups about. Those that
choose open-source have a competitive advantage. For tech startups,
open-source lowers the price of entry.
Today's proprietary tools are tomorrow's legacy applications. Soon
we'll all be busy helping companies migrate off RoboHelp, FrameMaker,
and IE web apps.
Mike O.
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