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Source: TechWorld.com - Posted by Benjamin D. Thomas
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Once seen as flaky, cheap and the work of amateur developers, open source has emerged blinking into the daylight. So who's using open source? Why are they using it? And are the benefits worth the risks? The answers are surprising -- and dispel some of the myths surrounding open source.
At first glance, the company Employease seems unremarkable. But look a little closer. Employease, which provides employee benefits administration services to more than 1,000 organisations across America, has an IT architecture chiefly built around open-source software, which makes it a rare bird -- not that it was planned that way when the company was founded in 1996.
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