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Article: Overcoming hurdles to open source adoption.(Gartner's Open Source Summit)
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- Network World
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- September 29, 2006
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Byline: Jennifer Mears
PHOENIX - As open source applications become increasingly stable, companies must learn to view the software as just another
piece in a comprehensive application architecture that will include open source as well as closed source components.
That was a key theme during Gartner's Open Source Summit, which ran last week at the JW Marriott Desert Ridge Hotel & Spa
in Phoenix. Gartner estimates about 500 IT professionals attended the second annual event, which provided one-on-one time
with analysts, a handful of analyst and vendor sessions, and user reports from such companies as Deutsche Bank and Yahoo about