Red Hat: Grasping The Open Source Software Concept
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| See, it's not really a software company, in that its margins (should
| it mature) won't resemble what people are used to with companies
| like Microsoft and Oracle (NasdaqGS: ORCL). That's because it doesn't
| sell software, it sells services on software.
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http://biz.yahoo.com/seekingalpha/070515/35514_id.html?.v=1
Indeed, but the author fails to realise that the whole industry is going to
evolve towards this model. That's why SAP, Oracle, Microsoft and others pull
money from their safe, or even use dirty tricks.
Also from /. today:
Performance Evaluation of Xen Vs. OpenVZ
Intersting little benchmark...
http://www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/2007/HPL-2007-59.pdf
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