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RightNow Technologies (Bozeman, MT) Touts Open-Source and On-Demand Apps

December 6, 2005 /

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Using open-source technology in combination with on-demand applications is the way for corporate IT departments to save the money they are currently spending on high-cost licensed software, says Greg Gianforte, CEO of on-demand customer relationship management software vendor RightNow Technologies Inc http://www.rightnow.com/ .

Gianforte argues that the combination of the open-source components such as the Linux operating system, the MySQL relational database and the Apache application server is robust enough to support the IT infrastructures of on-demand software vendors as well as their largest customers.

By John Pallatto

Full Story: http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1894890,00.asp

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Many thanks to Robin Jackson for passing this along. Russ)

Further reading on Open Source: Portland, Oregon builds reputation as software revolution hub. Too many cooks may spoil the broth, but too many programmers just makes software better. http://www.matr.net/article-17080.html

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