Open Sourcers see gold in gloom

THE PEOPLE with the cash behind Open Sauce outfits are rubbing their paws with glee at the economic downturn, according to Internet News.

Speaking at the Open Source Business Conference Ron Hovsepian, CEO of Linux provider Novell, said that Linux is just what companies need now.

More than 92 per cent of those who listened to Hovsepian's keynote, agreed that the miserable economy should be good for open source.

Marten Mikos, former CEO at mySQL added that punters buy on low price, so in a recession so open source is that much more attractive.

John Roberts, CEO of SugarCRM, said all outfits were looking at costs and those which are proprietary software based are finding it hard to justify the expense.

Dries Buytaert, founder of Drupal.org said that there were plenty of unemployed developers willing to work on his project for the experience. µ

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