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[News] Linux and Free Software Support Turn to Businesses

  • Subject: [News] Linux and Free Software Support Turn to Businesses
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2008 08:12:39 +0000
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Netscape / schestowitz.com
  • User-agent: KNode/0.10.4
Open Source Support: When Should You Go Commercial?

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| These days we can assume that most large enterprises have some sort of open 
| source software presence in the data center. Whether it is racks full of 
| Linux servers, a few contrasting Linux instances, or even just Apache running 
| on Windows, open source is prevalent. So what happens when you need help with 
| open source software? Not just simple configuration issues but problems 
| like, "it doesn't work as documented" and true bugs that bite. There are 
| options, but are they worth it?      
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http://www.enterprisenetworkingplanet.com/netos/article.php/3722166

CSI: Open Source  

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| While "CSI" is well known in popular culture thanks to the "CSI: Crime Scene 
| Investigation" TV shows, the former head of the Open Source Development Labs 
| (OSDL) is pushing a different use of the acronym.   
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http://www.internetnews.com/bus-news/article.php/3721806


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

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