Todd Barr of Fiveruns (formerly of Red Hat) has a thought-provoking post comparing the software industry to the energy industry. Specifically, he calls out open source as akin to regulated energy companies, while proprietary software vendors are more like unregulated energy companies. The interesting part is what happens when you combine the two:
I think the future looks similar to the energy industry: massive technology companies will have a mix of regulated and unregulated businesses, that maximizes the advantages of both. For standard, widely-used technologies, open source “regulation” makes sense because it lowers development costs and provides a standards-based, predictable subscription base of business.
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In my estimation, the GPL is by far the world’s ideal open-source license for business. If Palamida’s recent count of GPLv3-licensed projects is any indication, business in open source is very, very good:
Our database now contains over 2,000 projects that are using the GPL v3. At
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(Credit: The 451 Group)Just when you thought venture interest in open source was quieting down, along comes the biggest quarter in open source’s (still young) history: $203.75 million raised, as reported by The 451 Group. This trumped the previous record of $193.6 million from Q4 2006. There’s something about the end of the year that bodes well for open source…
Great news, no? Well, yes and no. as The 451 Group’s Matthew Aslett goes on to note, the quarter saw far more later-stage deals than early (seed and Series A) deals:
Even though the likes of Ringside Networks, Bluenog, and Engine Yard did prove there’s more to come in the future, the vast majority of the funding raised in the quarter went to more familiar names, such as Automattic, Greenplum, SugarCRM, and Pentaho.
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