'It'll be ugly when half the software industry goes away' - pundit
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| We're pretty sure that's what executives, researchers and developers told
| us yesterday, during a Carnegie Mellon West sponsored event at Microsoft's
| Silicon Valley headquarters.
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| The hottest software company on the planet - VMware - also seems to go
| against the doom and gloom scenario presented by the pundits. Close to a
| decade after it started, VMware continues to show 100 per cent year-on-year
| revenue growth and has an IPO on tap. It makes far more money running
| multiple copies of Linux on servers than the open source, services darling
| of the "New Software Industry" analysts - Red Hat.
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| The big three all have so-called "on-demand" strategies underway for
| obvious reasons. New license revenue has stalled. Making matters worse,
| open source companies dish out new, good enough software for low-end
| tasks at a steady pace. This leaves services and maintenance programs
| as the only real ways to make new money.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/05/01/the_new_software_industry/
A bit of FUD and a lot of fear from proprietary software companies,
sprearheaded by Microsoft.
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