(Credit: Matt Asay)Mozilla just released Firefox 3 Beta 5, the last beta release before Firefox 3 goes to “release candidate” status. It feels even faster than before, and includes over 750 fixes over Firefox 3 Beta 4. It’s getting rave reviews. Progress, right?
As can be seen in …
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(Credit: Matt Asay)
Mozilla just released Firefox 3 Beta 5, the last beta release before Firefox 3 goes to “release candidate” status. It feels even faster than before, and includes over 750 fixes over Firefox 3 Beta 4. It’s getting rave reviews. Progress, right?
As can be seen in …
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One of the frustrating things about an open-source business is you don’t generally know who is using your software. The paid customers you know, of course, but generally this represents a small fraction of the total user base.
In Alfresco’s case, roughly 30,000 people download our software each month. Of those, maybe 4,000 to 6,000 register for documentation or give us their contact information in some other way.
Larry Augustin gave an excellent presentation [PDF] on this recently at OSBC. He talked about how to engineer a product to maximize conversions from downloads to dollars.
Today I found a new way. LinkedIn. What do I mean? And is this only something for open-source vendors?
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Paula Rooney of ZDNet has some bad news for those promoting Linux. According to a Gartner report, Linux’s cost advantages are soon to dissipate and software as a service will soon eclipse Linux as “the preferred IT cost-cutting method” (by 2013).
If true, in both cases Linux and open source win. What’s not to love?
In the first instance, open source long ago ceased to be dependent on winning through cheapness. Yes, many CIOs still look to open source to deliver cost savings, but people aren’t switching to Novell and Red Hat to save a buck, just as few (if any) have outright dumped Red Hat’s for Oracle’s discount Unbreakable Linux.
It’s not about a price tag. It’s about value, as Red Hat’s Michael Tiemann emphatically said at OSCON a few years back.
If Linux’s TCO goes up relative to its proprietary competition, so has its value. Perhaps Gartner is simply predicting that Linux vendors will finally get paid their due?
This isn’t exactly how Gartner sees it:
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