Merritt-Gilbert said that Komatsu has seen significant gains in product quality although he declined to share any hard numbers.

He has been encouraged that as internal groups become aware of the Bugzilla project tracking application, they want to use it. Several of Komatsu's 3rd party vendors has access to the system, now.

Rockhold has no immediate plans for R Cubed to market the Bugzilla project tracking concept to other companies.

The Bugzilla based Komatsu manufacturing project tracking application is just one more example of companies utilizing the power of Open Source Software to streamline business processes.

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