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[News] Tenth Planet Will Manage Free Software for Big Money

  • Subject: [News] Tenth Planet Will Manage Free Software for Big Money
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2007 05:24:13 +0000
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Netscape / schestowitz.com
  • User-agent: KNode/0.10.4
Tenth Planet wins $10mn deal from US firm

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| Tech solutions vendor Tenth Planet Technologies Pvt Ltd has won a $10-million 
| contract from US collection firm Talbott, Adams & Moore Inc (TAM Inc). 
|  
| Under the terms of the contract, Tenth Planet will develop and implement a 
| complete open source architecture solution for TAM Inc's collection 
| management businesses.  
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http://www.business-standard.com/iceworld/storypage.php?leftnm=8&subLeft=2&chklogin=N&autono=308887&tab=r

Quote for the day:

"There won’t be anything we won’t say to people to try and convince them that
our way is the way to go."

                                --Bill Gates


Microsoft can only fight back with FUD.


Related:

The secret to Red Hat's success

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| How can Red Hat stay in business when CentOS is giving away Red Hat code for 
| free? 
| 
| The answer is because Red Hat is also giving away Red Hat code for free. 
| 
| [...]
| 
| CentOS stands a good chance of putting downward pressure on the price of 
| RHEL, but only as one part of the commodification of operating systems and 
| other software. Hardware has already been through this phase, and as the 
| process works its way through the software stack, it will be helped by the 
| growing trend to virtualization.     
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http://searchenterpriselinux.techtarget.com/expert/KnowledgebaseAnswer/0,289625,sid39_gci1283663_tax305254,00.html
http://tinyurl.com/2sge6j


“Hybrid” Source, MySQL, and the Economics of Open Source

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| As is typical, I’m late with the news, but given that we’re still getting 
| inquiries on the subject, it’s worth taking a look at the MySQL Workbench 
| news. Particularly in light of the fact that it’s closely tied to another 
| frequent line of questioning from our clients: hybrid source. In an effort to 
| kill the proverbial two birds, then, let’s indulge in a quick Q&A on the 
| subject.      
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http://redmonk.com/sogrady/2007/12/03/mysql_workbench/


An interview with Matt Asay

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| Glyn Moody talked to him about why he became a GPL believer and how to create 
| a billion-dollar revenue open source company. 
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http://lwn.net/Articles/240877/#Comments


So what is open source code?

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| The drawbacks are that there is not as much money in open source development. 
| Money can be made, but it is easier for the big companies to close things up, 
| get people hooked on their code, then charge them lots for the next upgrade 
| to whatever the big company decides to give them. You can make money from 
| open source, and one way is to do like Terra Soft Solutions (TSS) is doing. 
| Pre installing Linux onto PS3 can make money. Releasing an entire operating 
| system to the paying customers first before releasing it to the public a few 
| weeks later can make money. Selling support can make money. Selling 
| supercomputer services can make money. Did I mention that a variant of Yellow 
| Dog Linux (YDL) is used by TSS to build supercomputers?         
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http://blogs.ydl.net/onefang/2007/06/22/so-what-is-open-source-code/


Top Five Open Source Business Models You Never Heard Of

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| The art of “selling” or generating revenue from open source is a topic of 
| growing importance as open source takes a larger piece of the software 
| business. In the past, open source revenue has largely been associated with 
| services marketed by many top tier Linux companies: Support, middleware 
| solutions, etc.    
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http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/osrc/article.php/3686616


How to make money by giving stuff away

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| RedHat CFO Charlie Peters said this week that the key to success
| is to "convince customers of the value of moving from free to paid".
| Largely because JBoss is a free download, an estimated 11 million
| people are using it. Now if they can move even a small fraction of
| those customers into the paying column, that will be a significant
| source of revenue.
| 
| [...]
| 
| There is something of a snowball effect here. As you bring more
| people into your "community", the community becomes more attractive
| (because of new content, shared knowledge, buzz, etc.), which drives
| even more people in.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/Burnette/?p=202


How to use open source as a power marketing tool

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| There are a number of ways traditional software vendors can participate
| in the open source software community. They circulate around open
| source licenses, such as the GNU General Public License (GPL), and
| how to leverage open source software as a marketing tool.
|
| [...]
|
| Traditional software vendors need to recognize the shift taking place
| is driven not only by successful open source projects, but also by the 
| rapid and broad adoption of open source in the customer marketplace. The 
| numbers behind open source adoption are compelling. Linux in both the 
| United States and Asia is the fastest growing operating system ever. As 
| measured by hostnames, Netcraft reports that the Internet has grown 26.1 
| percent over the past 12 months, over 67 percent of it served up by open 
| source Apache servers.
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http://management.itmanagersjournal.com/management/04/06/24/2057239.shtml

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