Open-Source Software Fosters Integration and Stability

By BERNARD W. GLEASON

On June 6, when Oracle launched a surprise, hostile takeover bid for PeopleSoft, industry analysts and the news media immediately focused on the timing and brilliance of Oracle's tactics, as if the move were comparable to Eisenhower's invasion of Normandy exactly 59 years earlier. Unfortunately the attention has been on the combatants, while ignoring...

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