Baylor neuroimaging lab has open source on the brain
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| Nagios was more complicated than King preferred. "One of the main
| complaints about open source in general is that you have to install a lot
| of different pieces, and while none of this is particularly difficult,
| it's still sort of a pain."
|
| King says he heard about Hyperic from a Slashdot post, downloaded the free
| version, and installed the software in one step that took him no more than
| 15 minutes. "I thought, 'How easy is this?'"
|
| King didn't have to buy the Enterprise Extensions for Hyperic -- he just
| wanted to. "We use so much open source, I can't add up the value of it.
| When you see a good project you want to encourage it. I felt a community
| responsibility to support Hyperic. I believe in the project.
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http://www.linux.com/article.pl?sid=07/06/04/1441225
Related:
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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