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Investing in open source companies: Nobody's getting rich -- yet (IT Manager's Journal)
IT Manager's Journal reports
on a panel discussion at the SD Forum Open Source Summit. "A panel
of people who know about such things agree that if commercial open source
software and services companies are to remain profitable, some current
business models are going to have to be revisited and/or
fine-tuned. Experts at the recent SD Forum Open Source Summit took on this
very topic and came up with some cogent advice for would-be
investors."
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Investing in open source companies: Nobody's getting rich -- yet (IT Manager's Journal) Posted Jan 7, 2004 9:53 UTC (Wed) by kingdon (subscriber, #4526) [Link] There is cogent advice in here. For example, the discussion of Liberate (the point of which is that there are lots of opportunities in being users of of open source software, as distinct from being a vendor of open source). This fits into my own pet theory that open source might take over the world because it is good for consumers, regardless of whether it decimates vendor profits (although time will tell - we'll see about future profits of IBM, Red Hat, Novell, etc). Another good point of the article is the specific notes on companies like IBM, Eazel, Sendmail, SCO, and others.There's also some material which is kind of muddled (for example, much muttering about what java app server people are using, which is sort of a significant issue but whatever the article is trying to say in this area doesn't really come through). But I wouldn't write off the entire article because parts are half-baked.
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