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Free Software Consultants are people and organizations that "sell", support, service, integrate, extend, customize, train and advise on [[wp:Portal:free software]] solutions.
{{Stub}} will be a directory using Semantic Data to collect and publish info on Enterprise Quality Free Software Consultants in the Newburyport and greater New England area like {{CompanyName}}, [http://www.theperlshop.com/ The Perl Shop], [https://www.bfccomputing.com/ BFC Computing], and [http://10up.com/ 10-up]
My worry, and it's shared by many, is that all the most successful free software companies continue to get swallowed up by larger companies that don't care about free software or the value created by freedom; they only care about the value of monopolization. So, whereas Sun generally was a good steward of MySQL, Oracle gobbled up Sun and MySQL was put to the test (forked and survives).
* Pentaho was bought out by Hitachi http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-02-10/hitachi-to-buy-pentaho-to-bolster-data-analysis-software-tools The "Community Edition" is still [https://sourceforge.net/projects/pentaho/ available on SourceForge], but they make it pretty hard to find from their website -- revealing how much they really care about the community aspect or freedom. https://tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com/2016/02/battery1.png?w=297&h=193
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