OSBC Report: Kaplan CTO declares "Open source is the software of choice in a
connected world"
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| He helps to run a New York CTO breakfast club. He keeps involved with various
| open-source communities. He's an ideal CTO.
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| Given Jon's background, one statement that he made in his opening remarks
| particularly impressed me:
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| I don't use open source because it's free....I use open source because it
| works.
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http://www.cnet.com/8301-13505_1-9903582-16.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=TheOpenRoad
Recent:
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
Related:
Asterisk creator: Consider open source VoIP, think twice about hybrid-hosted
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| Companies selecting a VoIP solution must choose from a dizzying array of
| options, including whether a hosted, hybrid-hosted or premise-based telephony
| system will work better for them, and whether the benefits of open source
| outweigh the potential risks.
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http://www.searchvoip.com.au/topics/article.asp?DocID=1279058
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