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Posted by Dr. Blip in Hot Topic at 13:41 | Thursday, June 11. 2009

Cnet - Years ago I proclaimed open source would never be relevant in the application market. Now I work for an open-source applications company.

Lesson? It's generally not a good idea to underestimate open source's potency.

To wit, here are three "Who would have thought open source could do that?" announcements that recently hit my RSS reader:

NovusEdge is demoing open-source energy management for "massive commercial buildings." OpenRemote does open-source home automation, but this suggests the idea can take on a different scale.

Human resource professionals spend time and money tracking job applicants. Well, now they can save their money by using open-source applicant-tracking applications. People used to say open source could only commodify broad application markets. I don't think this qualifies...

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