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Thus, this encourages more and more innovation and invention in the field of computing. There are more and more algorithms, research and development in this field. Woods, D., “The Commercial Bear Hug of Open Source,” Forbes, August 18, 2008.Fast forward, so finally, in the 21st century with the leadership of big players such as Google, Amazon, Facebook, and others. What do you think of the OSS offering compared to the commercial product? Will you continue to use the OSS product? Why or why not?

Marketcetera-an enterprise trading platform for hedge fund managers that competes with FlexTrade and Portware.Alfresco-collaboration software that competes with Microsoft Sharepoint and EMC’s Documentum.Gimp-a graphic tool with features found in Photoshop.OpenOffice-a competitor to Microsoft Office.Firefox-a Web browser that competes with Internet Explorer.In addition to the LAMP products, some major examples include the following: lists over two hundred and thirty thousand such products 1! Many of these products come with the installation tools, support utilities, and full documentation that make them difficult to distinguish from traditional commercial efforts (Woods, 2008). Just about every type of commercial product has an open source equivalent. Be able to list commercial products and their open source competitors.

Recognize that just about every type of commercial product has an open source equivalent.After studying this section you should be able to do the following:
