Dana wrote an excellent piece over the weekend challenging Microsoft to compete with open-source products, and not with open source itself. This has what Microsoft has claimed to be doing for years, but the reality is that Steve Ballmer can’t seem to wrap his brain around open source, even when he tries to appear open or dismissive to or of it.

Microsoft should be looking to open source as an exceptional opportunity to extend the dominance of its Windows platform. Instead, it gets so mixed up as to whether it’s a platform or application or proprietary company that it fails to simply add open source to its arsenal. Dana writes:

Open source and Microsoft were never really enemies in the first place. Open source is a business model. Microsoft is a company. It’s like pitting a noun against a verb.

Microsoft is free to use the open source business model, or any model derived from it, like SaaS. Open source companies, in turn, are perfectly free to deliver proprietary extensions to open source products, as they regularly do under many licenses.

… Source:The Open Road

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• First, 63 percent of IT departments surveyed by Forrester “expect[] social technologies to impact the business world.” The other 37 percent apparently don’t realize just how much time their employees are

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It’s no secret that Sun just laid off 1,000 employees, and might lay off up to 2,500, but what’s interesting is how Sun is offsetting the headcount loss with a more efficient way of finding leads.

It’s called open source. As TechCrunch reports on Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz’s Supernova talk:

His speak was about how Sun leverages open source by allowing its software (such as MySQL and ZFS) to float out and be downloaded for free, from where a small percentage of those users can be converted to customers. So through open source and free, Sun have the benefit of a free lead generation and marketing machine - especially with MySQL which is currently being downloaded over 70,000 times a day.

… Source:The Open Road

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Dana wrote an excellent piece over the weekend challenging Microsoft to compete with open-source products, and not with open source itself. This has what Microsoft has claimed to be doing for years, but the reality is that Steve Ballmer can’t seem to wrap his brain around open source, even when he tries to appear open or dismissive to or of it.

Microsoft should be looking to open source as an exceptional opportunity to extend the dominance of its Windows platform. Instead, it gets so blended up as to whether it’s a platform or application or proprietary company that it fails to simply add open source to its arsenal. Dana writes:

Open source and Microsoft were never really enemies in the first place. Open source is a business model. Microsoft is a company. It’s like pitting a noun against a verb.

Microsoft is free to use the open source business model, or any model derived from it, like SaaS. Open source companies, in turn, are perfectly free to deliver proprietary extensions to open source products, as they regularly do under many licenses.

… Source:The Open Road

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