Open source or proprietary: Which is the ideal platform for innovation?
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| Put bluntly, the price for Oracle/IBM/SugarCRM is much more attractive
| to end-users if it's running on an open source platform, which gives
| these companies ample incentive to co-invest in its development.
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| This would just be idle academia if it hadn't been shown to work in
| many instances, with the number (and importance) of these instances
| growing all the time. Linux. Apache. Eclipse. Xen. MySQL (SAP's investment
| of money and resources, among others'). Etc. Open source gives third
| parties the means and the incentives to innovate on others' platforms,b
| e it an operating system, database, content management system, or
| whatever.
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| No proprietary platform can match that.
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http://weblog.infoworld.com/openresource/archives/2006/08/open_source_or.html
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