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[News] Open Source Means Big Figures, Not Poverty

Is there money in them thar open source hills?

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| The longer I work in open source, the more it's clear to me that opens
| ource can crack the billion-dollar barrier. I live it every day, and advise
| a range of companies that are successfully tracking billion-dollar 
| trajectories.
| 
| Will people pay seven figures-plus for open source? Of course. Just ask
| SugarCRM, Red Hat, JBoss, or MySQL. I personally see a range of six-figure
| deals crossing my desk, with seven-figure deals a quarter away. Open source
| does not equal poverty; open source equals massive opportunity. Thei
| ndustry is rapidly maturing, and that maturity leads to open source,
| and rising profits therein.
| 
| Five years from now, no one will bother selling proprietary bits anymore.
| Why would they? The only thing that is lacking today is understanding of
| the business models that are driving open source success.
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