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[News] Why Enterprises Will Drop Licences Model and Choose (Free) Open Source

Open Source at the Heart of the Enterprise

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| ...the scope of SOE's infrastructure dictated the use of open source.
| Licensing costs for commercial alternatives would have driven the price
| of the final service too high. In other words, SOE designed a business
| based on the economics of open source, and thereby created an enormous
| revenue opportunity.
| 
| [...]
| 
| In my view, the evolution of our economy toward an information-intensive
| environment means that the old scarcity-based software licensing models
| are unsustainable. While your vendors will never help you move toward a
| business based on widely-available (but cheap) computing, you won't have
| a choice. Start getting ready for tomorrow's world of ubiquitous
| software, with all it implies.
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        http://blogs.cioW.com/open-source-at-the-heart-of-the-enterprise

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