The Adoption-Led Market
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| The switch for a mesh topology in society has led to easy access for everyone
| to Free software created by open source communities. The result is an
| emerging approach which is rapidly spreading for smaller software projects
| and in my view is the future of all software acquisition. The emerging
| approach is an adoption-led market.
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| In this approach, developers select from available Free software and try the
| software that fits best in their proposed application. They develop
| prototypes, switch packages as they find benefits and problems and finally
| create a deployable solution to their business problem. At that final point,
| assuming the application is sufficiently critical to the business to make it
| worthwhile to do so, they seek out vendors to provide support, services (like
| defect resolution) and more. Adoption-led users are not all customers; they
| only become so when they find a vendor with value to offer.
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http://blogs.sun.com/webmink/entry/the_adoption_led_market
IBM takes a similar approach. New contribution:
IBM donates code to secure Ajax mashups
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| IBM on Thursday said it is donating code for securing mashups to the Open
| Ajax Alliance, a group of vendors and open-source Ajax projects.
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http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9893087-7.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
Related:
Sun CEO: "Proprietary"...did more damage to sun than any market downturn
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| Sun has discovered the exact same thing. Freedom sells. Or, rather,
| services around freedom sell. The freedom itself is, well, free.
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http://weblog.infoworld.com/openresource/archives/2007/04/sun_ceo_proprie.html
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