With the financial melt-rndown eroding IT budgets, invest-rnment banks, hedge funds and otherrnfinancial institutions are rethinkingrntheir attitudes toward open sourcerntechnology. Use of open source code isrnquietly booming in the capital marketsrnbecause of increased cost pressures, and analysts predict current economic conditions will drive further adoption.rn"Financial services firms are taking a different look at open source technology now that they are financially constrained," comments Lloyd Altman, a senior executive in Accenture's capital markets practice. Altman and others suggest there is now a corporate IT mandate to consider open source applications as a way to reuse existing technologies and save money.
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