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Will IT Be More Open in 2010?
Three Reasons Why it is Inevitable
March 4, 2010,
Volume 145, Issue 1

Exponential improvement in hardware continues to make possible the creation of solutions at ever higher levels of abstraction.

-- Evan Powell
 

Inevitably IT will be more open by the end of 2010, contends Evan Powell, who cites these three reasons on why the momentum toward openness is certain:

  • 1. Moore's Law -> abstraction -> freedom and flexibility and openness
  • 2. Tight budgets -> open minds
  • 3. Open source critical mass cannot be stopped

Visit Powell's blog for details. [...read more...]

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