Creating an Open Source Strategy - Part 2
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| But before I start, here are some predictions from Gartner:
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| * By 2010, 75 percent of mainstream IT shops will have a formal open
| source acquisition policy in place.
| * By 2008, open source will compete with closed source in every
| infrastructure market.
| * By 2010, mainstream IT shops will consider open source for 80 percent
| of their infrastructure software needs.
| * By 2010, mainstream IT shops will consider open source for 25 percent
| of their business software needs.
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http://blogs.ittoolbox.com/eai/madgreek/archives/creating-an-open-source-strategy-part-2-18396
Open source takes on monster IT firms
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| The company, which sells a product based on the open source PostgreSQL
| database, is another in a long line of firms using open source products to
| take on bigger, more established players.
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http://www.itpro.co.uk/information-management/news/122819/open-source-takes-on-monster-it-firms.html
Related:
Meet the 'New Disruptors': Executives Finding Success in Shaking Up Their
Industries
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| Red Hat develops and provides support for Linux software services.
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| [...]
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| "I have an amazing amount of respect for what Bob built," he added. "I
| think Red Hat is one of the most successful companies to ever come from
| NC, and as I told Bob that night I just hope that Motricity will one day
| be seen in the same league as companies like Red Hat and SAS here in
| the triangle!"
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http://www.localtechwire.com/business/local_tech_wire/news/story/1451389/
Constructive disruption: an enterprise perspective on open source
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| It was refreshing to hear how ardently each panelist spoke of the
| benefits of open source. These are significant, global brand names,
| and each is leveraging open source to discover value and drive
| innovation. The tide surely has turned in open source's favor.
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http://weblog.infoworld.com/openresource/archives/2007/05/constructive_di.html
Credit Suisse Disruptive Technology Portfolio Mover Of The Week: Red Hat
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| This was the second quarter in a row in which Red Hat's multiyear deals
| grew significantly compared with the prior year, and some investors
| probably see this as a sign that the company is discounting
| contracts. Pricing pressure of this sort is a particularly
| important issue for investors now that Oracle is offering a
| discounted alternative to Red Hat.
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http://www.informationweek.com/software/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=198800838
Having Fun With Disruptive Models
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| Net software infrastructure is another classic example. Imagine a world
| where no free Linux or Apache or MySQL existed and then imagine how
| many billions Microsoft and Sun have lost because they do.
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| [...]
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| The answer to the business model for static media is, unless someone has
| a flash of business genius, likely to be that beautiful, ugly word "free."
| Free, of course, comes in more shades than Eskimo snow, but whatever shade
| of free your music is, if you are paying .001 cents more on a can of Coke,
| you're not going to be complaining much. The money will still be flowing,
| but the bill to you will be bundled into some other cost like the
| advertising margin in your groceries. With all this "free," it's easy to
| think dot-com stands for dot-communism, but in reality, it's just an
| efficient market at work. In the meantime, we should all be trying to think
| up crazy ideas like text adverts in little boxes down the side of Web
| pages.
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http://www.forbes.com/2006/09/16/microsoft-google-oracle-business-model-pf-guru-in_cc_0918soapbox_inl.html?partner=yahootix
http://tinyurl.com/qqd5y
Disruption in the Software Industry
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| Many corporate IT managers considered Linux to be woefully inadequate
| in its early days and for the most part, they were right. But it
| was good enough for quick and dirty applications and for
| provisioning non-critical systems like file & print servers and
| web servers. As the web started to grow in importance, those
| niche applications became more prevalent and Linux continued to
| get better. Now you find Linux in pretty much every corporate
| data center in the world.
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http://www.theopenforce.com/2007/01/disruption_in_t.html
Standards and Disruptive Technologies
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| Look for more and more recognition of the importance of
| standards-based co-opetition in the years ahead -- and for the
| success of more disruptive technologies as a result.
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http://www.consortiuminfo.org/standardsblog/article.php?story=20070104044420309
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