Slowly but surely, open source technology is converting hordes of doubters to firm believers across Asia, including the Philippines. Consumer perception and preference for open source products such as the Apache Web Server, Linux Operating System, PHP, Apache Tomcat, and Eclipse IDE, have been on an upswing, according to open source guru Winston Damarillo during the recent Philippine Open Source Summit (POSS) in Cebu. The regional trend follows accelerated deployment of open source technology worldwide, with almost half of all websites in the world running on Apache Web Server, said Damarillo, who serves as chair of software development firm Exist.
Melvin Calimag, mb.com.ph
