The Failure of Open Source Business Advocacy
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| The consistent and often exclusive focus on cost of acquisition as a
| competitive advantage is a key factor leading into unsustainable and
| sub-optimal deployment of open source. It is often the IT budget rather than
| the longer range IT strategy which provides an entry point for free software
| in the enterprise.
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http://sancairodicopenhagen.com/joe/failure_of_open_source_business_advocacy
On the other hand:
Video ads broker says best part of open source is the cost: zero
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| flvorful.com brokers online video ad space and creates commercials for
| clients to embed in existing content, similar to television advertising.
| flvorful.com CEO Jake Varghese calls his company "AdSense for videos. It's a
| way for video publishers to monetize their work." Publishers can create their
| own commercial content, or hire flvorful.com to create it for them, and then
| insert it before or in the middle of the videos. Varghese is a big proponent
| of open source; he says he wouldn't use anything else to build his business.
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| Varghese was familiar with open source software from his college days
| studying computer science. "They teach mainly on open source software," he
| says. "We'd pull code out of the Linux kernel and that's what we'd study." In
| school, Varghese also studied Web development, and "all the open source
| choices that go along with it -- should I go with Linux and MySQL or with
| Windows hosting? The choice was easy for me: I didn't have any money. The
| Linux packages were always cheaper." By the time he made up his mind to
| launch his own business, LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP) was the only
| smart choice.
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http://www.linux.com/feature/119956
Related:
Balancing open source risk and the total innovation opportunity
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| This week I have been banging on and on about the total
| innovation opportunity of using open source software as an
| enterprise development platform.
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http://www.businessreviewonline.com/os/archives/2007/01/balancing_open.html
Can you leave innovation to the customer?
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| Open source innovation: how does it work?
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| Ideas or problems are made freely available to anyone who can be bothered to
| look at them. They are then aired in online forums, meaning that glitches are
| ironed out in record time, and the forum creator charges to a manufacturer to
| develop the prototype and get the product onto the shelves.
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http://blogs.theage.com.au/innovator/archives/2007/09/can_you_leave_i.html
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