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Few industries and companies have been spared the grave effects of the recession. Even fewer have actually generated increased profits from it. An example of this is the venerable repo man. As people lost jobs and started to default on their expensive possessions–cars, boats and even airplanes–business for the repo men of the world had never been better. The same can be said for the industry of Linux and other open source software applications. Like repo men, business is booming. Companies have been forced to cut costs across the board, including in the IT department; done commonly by implementing more cost-effective software. This has prompted a surge of companies to start acquiring the services of open source software. The cost-cutting advantages with open source software are numerous. For one, many basic distributions and applications can be downloaded for absolutely nothing. However, for larger projects like servers a subscription is generally required, but they are still much cheaper than those offered from proprietary software vendors. Additionally, open source software can be run on less expensive hardware and it is adaptable to many platforms, thus saving companies money on any major modifications or upgrades. With this new found interest, commercial open source software vendors are cashing in. Vendors make their profits by selling services like technical support, updates and additional product features, instead of the actual software. But with the increase of new users they are seeing record revenues. Furthermore, it isn’t only new users that are pushing the demand for open source software. Before things went sour, there was already a substantial amount of businesses running Linux server software. In the aftermath, these same companies are now looking to employ the services of open source software in brand new areas from database mainframes to supply chain administration to customer service interactions. And for those that had been previous users of open source software the recession has been a time of confirmation that they had made the right, cost-effective investment, which certainly portends that those companies will be continuing customers.

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