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(Fortune Magazine) -- Free software is great, and corporate America loves it. It's often high-quality stuff that can be downloaded free off the Internet and then copied at will. It's versatile - it can be customized to perform almost any large-scale computing task - and it's blessedly crash-resistant. A broad community of developers, from individuals to large companies like IBM, is constantly working to improve it and introduce new features. No wonder the business world has embraced it so enthusiastically: More than half the companies in the Fortune 500 are thought to be using the free operating system Linux in their data centers.

Very insightful article about the insides of Google

The European Union's competition commissioner, Neelie Kroes, delivered an unusually blunt rebuke to Microsoft on Tuesday by recommending that businesses and governments use software based on open standards.

Ozzie, speaking at Sanford C. Bernstein Strategic Decisions Conference in New York on Wednesday, said that while Google is a "tremendously strong competitor...open source was much more potentially disruptive" to Microsoft's business model.

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This is an opensource replacement for MS Project. It can even open msproject files and looks just the same.

Eric S. Raymond article

How do you take on the dominant player in your industry, like Microsoft? Well, you aren't going to easily outspend or out market them. Microsoft has a tremendous amount of momentum and software assets creating a huge barrier for competitors. They have mor

How do you take on the dominant player in your industry, like Microsoft? Well, you aren't going to easily outspend or out market them. Microsoft has a tremendous amount of momentum and software assets creating a huge barrier for competitors.