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Article: Open source's future: More Microsoft, bigger talent shortages; Open source analyst says systems integrators to play bigger role in 2008 too.
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- Network World
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- November 27, 2007
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Byline: Bob Brown
The open source industry in 2008 will be marked by more news out of Microsoft, IBM, Oracle and other big IT vendors,
less start-up funding, more M&A activity, and an increasingly serious talent shortage.
That's all according to Raven Zachary, open source research director for The 451 Group, which is holding its 2nd Annual Client
Conference in Boston this week.
Zachary said during a presentation at the event that overall, he is bullish on the market. His optimism is fueled in part
by the fact that the traditional bottom-up adoption of open source by developers and systems management pros in ...