Dell helping Canonical become profitable
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| If you compare the Dell prices to the official Canonical support prices,
| you will find that one year of support costs $250 direct from Canonical,
| and $275 if you buy it bundled with your Dell machine.
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http://useopensource.blogspot.com/2007/05/dell-helping-canonical-become.html
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.
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| [...]
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| 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
Hybrid is also good for Open Source!
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| The Prius hybrid car is great news for our planet: As much as it can,
| it runs on electricity and is thereby a signatory of the Kyoto treaty.
| But never does it stop - if there is no electricity, it will run on
| regular fuel. That's a great car for serving both the planet and
| it inhabitants at the same time.
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http://www.citizenvalley.org/blocnotes/index.php?PHPSESSID=8a5a9070147e8681711c4b0e82664bd3
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.
|
| [...]
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| 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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