Open Source More Efficient Than Proprietary

Information Week: The Open Source Enterprise: Its Time Has Come

Led by founder and CTO Ari Zilka, once the chief architect for Walmart.com [...] Terracotta saves money not because you can download it for free–though you can–but because it’s a substitute for buying more database systems, more application servers, and more hardware to run overworked applications, the former brute-strength solution to a data-volume problem.

IE, Open Source uses resources more efficiently than their proprietary counterparts. Nice.

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