It’s actually open source software that’s eating the world (VentureBeat)

For a far-outside view, it's hard to beat this VentureBeat article, wherein a venture capitalist talks about how "open-source companies" are taking over. "The OSS companies that will be pillars of IT in the future are the companies that leverage a successful OSS project for sales, marketing, and engineering prioritization but have a product and business strategy that includes some proprietary enhancements. They’ve figured out that customers are more than happy to pay for an enterprise-grade version of the complete product, which may have security, management, or integration enhancements and come with support. And they also understand that keeping this type of functionality proprietary won’t alienate the community supporting the project the way something such as a performance enhancement would."

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