Vendors Who Use Open Source as Part of Their Product

question 21

Multiple Choice

Vendors who use open source as part of their product offerings can expect to bring new products to the market faster because:

• A) open source products have lower product lifecycles.
• B) the large number of people who look at the code help speed up product development.
• C) they can skip whole segments of the software development process.
• D) open source software programming is based on simpler code than commercial products.
• E) the open source nature of the products ensures they don't have to conduct debugging tests.

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