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Trends and Predictions for 2006 (IT-Director)Trends and Predictions for 2006 (IT-Director)Posted Jan 10, 2006 14:46 UTC (Tue) by faassen (subscriber, #1676)Parent article: Trends and Predictions for 2006 (IT-Director)
I don't think all open source business models depend on widespread adoption. Infrae, the company I co-founded, is a small company that makes its living developing and extending Silva, an open source CMS, and other open source software. I can't say our software has more than moderate adoption -- quite a lot of places are using Silva, and it's popular in particular market segments , but it's tiny compared to something like Firefox or Open Office. Infrae is a small company, but we're viable all right.
Granted, we build on top of open source infrastructural software that has a wider adoption, such as Python and Zope. And of course, more adoption of software tends to allow more business. But his statement that widespread adoption is an absolute requirement for viable business is untrue.
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