� Get a load of the new mortar for open source bricks | Between the Lines | ZDNet.com: "In a matter of months — not quarters or years — many of the hurdles to a smooth, cost-effective, and IT staff-friendly migration to and general use of holistic open source platforms will be whittled away. In the place of the piles of bricks will be pre-configured and tested sections of 'wall,' with orderly inventories of defined and properly licensed code, off-the-shelf indemnification from insurers, and with an ecology of globally-placed professional services resources to cost-effectively assemble (and remotely monitor) the IT stacks of the users' choices.
This rapid maturation of open source components into refined stacks is due to a huge pile of venture capital money being poured into the creation of the required services mortar to make open source components into mission-critical-ready and tightly aligned solutions. The entrepreneurial, managerial, technical, marketing, and strategic business acumen that has been drawn to this task is staggering. Some of the best minds, with A-team success records in the commercial software business, have left or been recruited from such companies as BEA, Sun, Microsoft, Oracle, and IBM. This folks are now running open source ecology support start-ups; one can imagine their options will not end up under water."
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