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12.14.06

Developers Still Flock to Open Source Software

Posted in Oracle, Red Hat, Steve Ballmer, Videos at 3:22 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz

Here is a collection of links to some very recent articles. They undoubtedly prove that Open Source is winning the development battle. Steam-gaining seems exponential.

Steve Ballmer cheers his own developers on, but this may be too late.

Meanwhile, Larry Ellison ‘pulls a Ballmer’.

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