Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> More on open source's billion-dollar speed limit
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> | There has never been a better time to be in open source. Yes, it takes
> | time to build a billion-dollar business, whether you're in open source
> | or proprietary software - just look at how long it took Business
> | Objects, Novell, and other companies to reach that mark.
Well, yeah, but to be fair, Novell "reached that mark" a decade ago by
selling Netware, not from Linux (yet).
Linux revenues are still in the 60 million per annum range (and growing).
> |
> | But it will happen. And in Red Hat's case, in the next five years.
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http://weblog.infoworld.com/openresource/archives/2006/08/more_on_open_so.html
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