Category: 1. Software Industry
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SDN: Is there money in open source services?
IDC’s Matt Lawton recently released a new report about open source adoption: “However, project vendors, project partners, and vendor partners need to step up and provide support and attendant services in order to move the adoption of OSS from early adopters to the mainstream. Only 12% of all projects are supported by a commercial software…
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Is open source bad for your career?
ComputerWorld Canada recently published an article about the closing keynote on open source that I had given at the Free Software & Open Source Symposium in Toronto last year. The basic tenet of the article is that I had claimed that software developers will fall on hard times due to open source. This is obviously…
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How to benefit from open source
Title: How to Benefit from Open Source Presenter: Dirk Riehle Institution: SAP Research, SAP Labs LLC Abstract: Open source is changing the game of how software is built and how money is made. This talk analyzes the economics of open source software from three main perspectives: The system integrator perspective, the start-up firm perspective, and…