In less than a half year of involvement, Big Blue has gone on to cohost the first ever Apache conference and declared Apache its optimal Web server across numerous product lines. Just like the separation of church and state, a careful line has to be drawn between commercial and open source. There's going to be a lot of gray areas where the open source and commercial worlds will co-mingle. And if the model thrives, says Andersen, it will mean only good tidings for proactive VARs. The real winners will be systems integrators.
Open source is just one more tool they can use to differentiate themselves.
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