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Embrace crunchiness: survive the software recession
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| Red Hatâs President and CEO Jim Whitehurst
| does a âState of the Unionâ blog (which I
| think should be a mandatory action for all
| CEOs) during which he talks about the
| companyâs double-digit growth rates for both
| revenue and headcount throughout the course of
| the recession. Open source appears to have
| thrived in during the downturn (whether we are
| out of it or not) and I think that might just
| be because open source likes the going to be
| crunchy.
|
| If you had to ascribe the terms âwealth and
| sogginessâ and âcrunchy and on the edgeâ to a)
| proprietary software systems and b) open
| source software â which way round would you
| put them? See what I mean? Open source is all
| about survival of the fittest rather than
| survival of the fattest. Now of course thatâs
| doing proprietary vendors a huge disservice,
| but I am trying to make a point.
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http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,10014958o-2000458459b,00.htm
Recent:
Open source has survived the recession
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| A TOP New York University anthropologist has
| noted that the open source software culture
| has emerged relatively unscathed from the
| economic downturn.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1588538/open-source-survived-recession
Recession proofing engineering resources
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| In challenging economic times, how do internal application development teams
| continue to deliver higher quality software and Web applications with fewer
| resources? Unlike in past economic downturns, development teams today have a
| resource they can turn to in order to lower the costs of development,
| maintain high-quality, and decrease cost of ownership for the long run: open
| source software.
|
| The use of open source, one of the most groundbreaking trends in the software
| industry, is more than just for experimental or for internal-use only. With
| experience in auditing billions of lines of code for Fortune 100 as well as
| start-up companies, Palamida has seen some of the most productive and
| cost-saving use of open source from market leaders across all industries.
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http://www.ciol.com/Developer/Open-Source/Feature/Recession-proofing-engineering-resources/261208114201/0/
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