What most people in America don't understand or have on rose colored glasses to what is beyond our borders, there are things that are going on that affect us here in America in rather disruptive ways if we're not in tune to the global market place. While most American's don't hesitate to use the Windows operating system for their computers, with Apple's Mac OS X gaining in markshare during the last quarter of 2005 as this article points out Apple doubles industry growth, US marketshare jumps, outside of our borders in Europe, Asia, India (see here for the 3 million open CDs to be distributed to Tamil speakers worldwide), South America and emerging nations they are adopting Open Source software in droves because of the lower barrier to entry into acquiring Open Source Software.
The issue for American companies is not if you use Open Source Software, but when. Apple's Mac OS X is based on FreeBSD which is partly Open Source and partly proprietary while most of Linux is completely Open Source.
As a small business owner, do you want to be left behind the global market place because you fail to adopt Open Source Software?
Saturday, July 23, 2005
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