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Recession-Proof Open Source
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| In a down economy, companies are more likely to view unprofitable software
| assets as a waste of resources than as an opportunity for future profits.
| Rather than destroying the software, one viable option is to release it as
| open source, handing the maintenance burden to a community of volunteers. A
| handoff like this requires care and guidance--you can't just toss a bundle of
| code out under an open source license and expect it to fly. It's worth the
| effort, though. At worst you will improve your company's reputation as a
| patron of open source (a strategy that has served IBM ( IBM - news -
| people ) extremely well over the years). And for a potential best scenario,
| look to the wildly successful Mozilla Firefox, which grew out of the
| unprofitable Netscape Navigator during the dot-com bust.
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http://www.forbes.com/2009/07/14/open-source-software-technology-breakthroughs-software.html
How to Bring Open-Source Software into the Enterprise
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| Open-source software has gained growing acceptance in the enterprise. Once
| enterprises put in place the same governance, policy and support processes
| around open-source software as they do with proprietary software, there is no
| limit to how much open-source software they can bring into their
| organization. Here, Knowledge Center contributor Carol J. Rizzo offers five
| tips on how to bring open-source software into your organization in a way
| that maps to your corporate risk factors, making open-source software no more
| or less of a risk than proprietary software.
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http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Linux-and-Open-Source/How-to-Bring-OpenSource-Software-into-the-Enterprise/
Recent:
Ballmer Goes Nuts Again, Gets Confused As to What Type of Venue He's At
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| Not to shit on Ballmer more than we already have, but man, is he a horrible
| public speaker. If Microsoft wants to revamp their image, it starts from the
| top
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http://gizmodo.com/5314471/ballmer-goes-nuts-again-gets-confused-as-to-what-type-of-venue-hes-at
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