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February 18, 2005
Open Source has crossed the chasm
For the past three years we've been actively building customer applications on top of Open Source components such as Cocoon. During that time we've seen Open Source in the enterprise go from being sniggered at to being the first choice when it comes to building even mission critical applications (I'll leave out the remarks we got during the first two years). And now, everyone else seems to be getting this too. Funny how it takes things like VC funding to leaverage this into the public eye. Conferences such as OSBC with talks like "The Next Wave of Open Source: Applications" will do their part to raise the visibility even higher.
It is extremely satisfying to see it all come together after five years. And this is only the beginning.
Posted by Matthew at February 18, 2005 08:45 AM