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Introducing the CAOS Research Service
Raven Zachary, August 22, 2006 @ 6:54 pm ETI am pleased the announce today the we have officially launched the 451 Commercial Adoption of Open Source (CAOS) Research Service and the first CAOS Report – “Stack and Deliver,” covering the open source stack provider space. For more details on these announcements, I invite you to take a look at the two press releases that were sent out today:
The 451 Group Introduces the 451 Commercial Adoption of Open Source (CAOS) Research Service
Many thanks go out to Dennis Callaghan, Chris Noble, and Nick Patience, for working with me on the first CAOS Report, as well as all of you who took part in the end user survey, vendor briefings, and discussions both on and off the record. Also, many thanks go out to Rachel Chalmers for so diligently covering the open source space for The 451 Group for years and years and also authoring our special report, Cashing in on open source software, which was published last December.
I will be blogging about the various components of the CAOS Research Service in the days ahead.
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