The Hidden Costs and Hidden Value of Open Source
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| There’s no doubt that open source’s time has come. Enterprises are openly
| embracing open source solutions up and down the stack, to the point where it
| has become the “ new normal.”
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http://www.dbta.com/blogs/mckendrick/?p=10
Open Source Business Innovation and the Subscription Model
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| It's not that traditional packaged/proprietary companies couldn't think about
| such businesses, but their existing margins and profit profiles don't
| typically allow them to work this way. New companies with open source
| software focused solutions have the advantage here, necessity being the
| Mother of invention and all.
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http://stephesblog.blogs.com/my_weblog/2007/08/open-source-bus.html
Q&A: Pete Cittadini on Actuate's open source gambit
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| Q. Isn't there a risk of open source cannibalizing your commercial BI
| products?
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| A. No, because we're not planning to open source any of our commercial
| server-based BI products now or in the foreseeable future. We're just
| commoditizing the development environment and don't mind giving that up to
| open source community.
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| Q. Of course open source is only "free", as in free puppy, right?
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| A. It's still early days to gauge how tapping into a 3 million-strong Eclipse
| BIRT development community will drag down the total cost of ownership of BI.
| We haven't calculated the overall savings, but it's something that we're
| working on.
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http://www.cbronline.com/article_news.asp?guid=F0989C6E-FFE9-46A4-BC92-419FE8ADF8C1
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