Are proprietary maintenance fees worse than open-source maintenance fees?
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| The proprietary world attempts to foist outdated software on its customers -
| software that other products have surpassed but which the customer is locked
| out of buying. There is a better way. It's called open source. Have you heard
| of it?
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http://blogs.cnet.com/8301-13505_1-9827846-16.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=TheOpenRoad
Many people still use IE6.
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Do You Maintain Your OS on a Regular Basis?
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| The thing that you have to remember about your computer is that it's
| a machine, and machines need regular maintenance. I'm not just talking
| about the hardware components, either, because the software that runs
| on and utilizes the hardware (your operating system) can also become
| bloated and inefficient over time, too.
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http://www.osweekly.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2366&Itemid=449
http://tinyurl.com/yayhu5
'It'll be ugly when half the software industry goes away' - pundit
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| We're pretty sure that's what executives, researchers and developers told
| us yesterday, during a Carnegie Mellon West sponsored event at Microsoft's
| Silicon Valley headquarters.
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| [...]
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| The hottest software company on the planet - VMware - also seems to go
| against the doom and gloom scenario presented by the pundits. Close to a
| decade after it started, VMware continues to show 100 per cent year-on-year
| revenue growth and has an IPO on tap. It makes far more money running
| multiple copies of Linux on servers than the open source, services darling
| of the "New Software Industry" analysts - Red Hat.
|
| [...]
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| The big three all have so-called "on-demand" strategies underway for
| obvious reasons. New license revenue has stalled. Making matters worse,
| open source companies dish out new, good enough software for low-end
| tasks at a steady pace. This leaves services and maintenance programs
| as the only real ways to make new money.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/05/01/the_new_software_industry/
IT maintenance burden stifles innovation
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| Keeping systems up and running is holding back European IT managers
| from contributing to business improvement as much as they could.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/12/19/it_stifile_innovation/
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