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By CJ Rhoads

July 5, 2004 12:00 PM ET

Computerworld - The Avalanche co-op is still young, but early savings hint at its potential:

Best Buy developed and donated a framework, called AppTalk, that cuts the labor cost of coding adapters (code that integrates two systems) from $25,000 to $5,000.

EPredix expects to cover the $30,000 Avalanche membership fee with one use of Charybdis, a Web deployment utility donated by Best Buy.

During the initial phase of Avalanche, when companies were sharing software informally, Jostens donated a project plan for an Oracle upgrade that it had spent more than $100,000 developing. Imation Corp., currently a candidate for membership, subsequently used it, spending only $5,000 to customize the battle-tested plan.

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