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Tuesday, November 29th, 2005

A Dozen Ways To Sustain Irrational Technology Selections

Hacknot: “Many developers remain convinced that open source software will save the world, enable black and white peoples to live in racial harmony, cure cancer and eliminate hunger and poverty. They may be right, but none of these are rational reasons to select a particular offering over a proprietary alternative for a particular commercial application. […]

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Tuesday, November 29th, 2005

Open Source and Mechanical Advantage

Claire Giordano: “I think the real value of making a project an open source/open development project is the power unleashed by enpowering a community. Empowering many people to each make their own mark, in support of shared goals and objectives, is a very powerful way to make a technology grow and spread and solve […]

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Saturday, November 26th, 2005

Open Source Innovation

Tim Bray: “I don’t think software innovation historically has correlated negatively or positively with open-source-ness. In the future though, I think pretty well all software innovation will be either open-source or inside a big server, because the business model for shipping closed-source software as a product is just too twisted and weird.”

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Wednesday, November 23rd, 2005

Can Open Source Defeat Microsoft?

Jack M. Germain: “Geiser noted that the interesting thing about the open-source model is that the biggest customers tend to be the developers involved in the projects and who are also working at corporations that end up using the software. In this sense, the open-source movement is not unlike grassroots political movements that seek to […]

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Wednesday, November 23rd, 2005

The value of open source isn’t the software

Howard C. Butler: “Remember that the community around your open source project provides most of the value. The software is what brought people in, but the people make the project. Don’t screw it up by thinking you can control them or by thinking that what you say is the final word. You get what you […]

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Sunday, November 20th, 2005

Is Open Source capitalism, socialism or communism?

Marc Fleury: “An optimally functioning FOSS business model needs 20 cents of sales and marketing to acquire 1 dollar of maintenance, where a traditional software company will have to spend around 2 1/2 dollars. Get it? Professional FOSS businesses can sustain sales and marketing costs out of the maintenance revenue stream.”

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Wednesday, November 16th, 2005

Time for a New Software Model

Larry Augustin: “The Open Source model turns the marketing problem on its head. Customers can look at, evaluate and review software without contacting the company that will sell it to them. Consider companies like SugarCRM (customer relationship management), JBoss (J2EE middleware), or Pentaho (business intelligence). The customer says, ‘I want something like that.’ He locates […]

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Tuesday, November 15th, 2005

I support Shai

Ian Holsman: “In the case for LARGE systems, which are implemented in MULTIPLE countries, and which have to be SUPPORTED by a central team I don%u2019t think a full opensource solution is viable. A open layered API makes more sense in this case.”

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Tuesday, November 15th, 2005

The virtuous cycle around open source

Sylvain Wallez: “Now it also changes the industry landscape, as boxed commercial products (hosted products is a different problem) need to have differentiating factors compared to their open source counterparts. Either by providing higher value features, or by exploring the long tail of features that aren’t of general interest enough to see an open source […]

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Tuesday, November 15th, 2005

The database open source won’t build

Neil McAllister, Infoworld: “What EnterpriseDB offers is differentiated from what other open source companies offer, as well. Consider: When you buy a commercial MySQL license, all you get is support and the right to use MySQL in ways that are incompatible with the GPL (GNU General Public License). When you buy EnterpriseDB, you get support […]

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