Open source, equal opportunity
Innovation is the cornerstone of competitive advantage, but developing new products requires expensive hardware.
03 July 2006
Open source is the solution, says IBM.
Started in 2001 using two white-box machines running an open source software stack, iStockPhoto.com today is a multimillion-dollar business and a customer of IBM`s.
Limitless computing power is within the grasp of all who can afford it, and the barriers to delivering products and services from almost anywhere are diminishing rapidly. The challenge, often, is that hardware costs remain too high for many companies around the world, particularly those in developing regions.
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