Open Source picks some new fights

Looks as if things will continue to heat up for closed source software companies. According to ZDNet, Open Software is beginning to take aim at the meat and potatoes of many software companies - infrastructure software.

Definitely a cause for companies for like Microsoft to be concerned, Open Source developers will soon be working on breaking into this lucrative market and we will undoubtly see even more flaming press bad mouthing the Open Source community.

Individual open-source database and other applications are already popular. Now two open-source projects have launched efforts to assemble “stacks” of software applications that offer an open-source equivalent to commercial software from Microsoft, Oracle, BEA Systems and others.

Last week, a company called Gluecode began selling technical support and maintenance services for a package of infrastructure tools from the Apache Foundation, which oversees and develops some of the most popular open-source software. The package includes portal and database software, and an application server.