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The primary reason for not using Open Source is that the technology has not yet consolidated around a commonly accepted standard. Open Source has been particularly bad at innovation; great at copying, but poor at delivering innovative solutions. From what I have seen of Open Source, the best of breed applications have taken many years and lots of corporate support before being usable (mysql, eclipse, firefox are good examples). The utilities are under the gun to deliver solutions now, not 5 years from now, and the various existing Open Source smart grid solutions are not even close to be mature enough for production use. ... 5 years from now, maybe.
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