'Open Source' Companies Form New Group
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New 'Open Source' Group Will Focus On Compatible Products
A number of companies that favor "open source" software is expected to announce Wednesday that they have formed a new group aimed at making products that can work together, News.com reports. Open-source products have code that can be viewed and altered by users. Founding members of the new Open Solutions Alliance include Centric CRM, EnterpriseDB, JasperSoft and SpikeSource. The group is looking to better meet the offerings of competing products from companies such as IBM, Oracle and Microsoft. "Some of the big proprietary vendors have a notion of full-blown suites and some promise of interoperability," said Michael Harvey, chief marketing officer of Centric CRM and one of the people who helped form the alliance. "None of the open-source application companies has fully built-out suites. We're going to work together to try to recreate some of that value for the user."
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Tech Daily AM -- 2/14/07
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