BusinessWeek has published an article by Steve Hamm about open-source alternatives to Linux. Thanks lisa.

Sweden's MySQL has signed up 5,000 customers for its $495 database program. A March Forrester Research Inc. (FORR ) survey of 140 large North American companies showed that 60% are either using open-source software or plan to. "We're starting to see a big change," says Andy Miller, vice-president for technical architecture at Corporate Express Inc., a Broomfield (Colo.) office-products distributor.

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