Technology vendors are recognizing that by putting some technology into open source, they gain collaboration from other great minds to help the project mature more quickly.

Developers from different companies can collaborate on projects and develop solutions for the greater good of the entire community. That’s not something that happens in a competitive commercial software market.

Proponents argue that open source solutions can evolve more quickly because so many minds are working to improve them. Plus, more organizations have access to the software because the licenses are free.

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