A New Model: Open Source Software After It's Acquired (InformationWeek)

Here's a lengthy InformationWeek article on corporations and their management of (and acquisition of) open source projects. "Over the past 24 months, a premium has been placed on open source code, as it moved from the backwater of the enterprise to the mainstream. In the process, open source has become big business. The idea: Develop open source code quickly; make it available for free download in hopes of winning early market momentum; rake in some technical support revenues as the code develops an enterprise following; and cash in via an acquisition by a deep-pocketed vendor."

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