"As the new year begins, the experts agreed that the big story for 2004 in the open-source world--and one of the biggest in the larger realm of IT--has been the growth of Linux and its acceptance as a mainstream choice for business. It's a trend that industry analysts expect to continue, even accelerate, in 2005 and for at least several years to come.
"'The biggest story for me in the last year was the commercialization of open source,' said John Rymer, vice president of research in application development and infrastructure for Forrester. 'For example, JBoss finally settled on a commercial business model and built out its product set, Apache came out with Geronimo ... and HP's mySQL initiative was encouraging...'"
