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Open Source offers more to CIOs
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| âQuality. Price. Service. Pick any two,â
| said a very succinct placard in Damodar's
| tailor shop. Back in the days when clothes
| were tailored, Damodar was one of the best
| in the business and he definitely knew what
| he was talking about.
|
| However, in the software industry, the
| emergence of open source software (OSS) has
| turned this dynamic on its head. It is no
| longer about, âPick any two,â but âPick ALL
| three.â
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http://osindia.blogspot.com/2010/05/open-source-offers-more-to-cios-open.html
Further Evaluating Commercial Open Source
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| As we all know measures of success are
| subjective. I believe commercial open source
| is proving to be a viable and successful
| model based on its ability to deliver real
| value to both customers and investors.
|
| [...]
|
| So we are constantly asked about why we put
| our software out as open source. The
| advantages of the commercial open source
| approach for the vendor, users and business
| community have become clear and include:
|
| â Users can try the product before buying,
| eliminating much of the sales activities of
| ordinary enterprise software
|
| â Lower cost of development through use of
| other open source components and
| contributions
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http://www.businessweek.com/technology/technology_at_work/archives/2009/07/further_evaluating_commercial_open_source.html
Open-Xchange Intros Simplified SaaS Partner Pricing
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| The new OXrate pricing program has five SaaS
| partner levels based on the providers'
| customer base which ranges from less than
| 1,000 to more than 250,000 customers. Each
| level offers two options of pricing, flat
| rate and guaranteed revenue.
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http://hosted-exchange.tmcnet.com/topics/hosted-exchange/articles/83932-open-xchange-intros-simplified-saas-partner-pricing.htm
Panasonic Announces Digium(R) Asterisk(R) Certification for Its New TGP500 Series SIP Cordless Phone System
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/panasonic-announces-digiumr-asteriskr-certification-for-its-new-tgp500-series-sip-cordless-phone-system-2010-05-04?reflink=MW_news_stmp
Metasploit's HD Moore from (almost) rags to (not quite) riches
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| Last week, I got on the phone with HD Moore
| to ask him how things have been going since
| he sold Metasploit to Rapid7, sending the
| open source security world into a frenzy
| some six months ago. Rapid7 had just
| released the commercial version, dubbed
| Metasploit Express, of Moore's much beloved
| open source penetration testing tool.
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http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/60804
Recent:
VC Funding for FLOSS Dips in 2009: Rebound in 2010?
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| But the good news is that open source vendors
| pulled ahead of the pack. Aslett writes that
| "OSS-related vendors fared better in terms of
| investment compared to software as a whole."
| This takes into account 67 deals, with a dip
| of 25% year over year from 2008. The total
| investment bill came in at about $375 million.
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http://ostatic.com/blog/vc-funding-for-floss-dips-in-2009-rebound-in-2010
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