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[News] Openness Facilitates Productivity in Research -- Forbes

Productivity Crisis In R&D

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| If companies can change their business models to become more open,
| to make greater use of external ideas in their own businesses, and
| let their unused ideas go to other businesses, these causes can be
| treated. Open business models attack the cost side of the problem
| by leveraging external R&D resources to save time and money in the
| innovation process.
| 
| [...]
| 
| Open business models also can increase revenues. P&G, for instance,
| is creating new brands by licensing technologies from other
| companies around the world, resulting in products like the SpinBrush,
| which generated first-year sales of $200 million.
| 
| Openness also involves getting more out of unused ideas and
| technology stuck inside your company. Both IBM and P&G no longer
| restrict their R&D to the markets each serves directly.
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http://www.forbes.com/2007/01/26/productivity-randd-chesbrough-oped-cx_hc_0126chesbrough.html?partner=yahootix
http://tinyurl.com/yuygbl


Last week:

The innovation opportunity of open source

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| I had the opportunity to meet up with Steven Grandchamp, president and
| CEO of OpenLogic, this morning, who noted that the company's customers
| can be separated into two groups: "they are either trying to save money
| or open up technical innovation," he said.
| 
| [...]
| 
| As well as TCO, there should also be a focus on TIO.
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http://www.businessreviewonline.com/os/archives/2007/01/the_innovation.html


EnterpriseDB -- the open source total innovation opportunity in action

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| For deployment customers like Sony, the attraction is not necessarily
| that the code is open source, but because it is an innovative product
| at a competitive price. The reason it's an innovative product at
| a competitive price is because it?s based on open source.
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http://www.businessreviewonline.com/os/archives/2007/01/enterprisedb_th.html


--
List of candidate Microsoft astroturfers (directly or indirectly paid by
Microsoft to post in this newsgroup):

        Larry Qualig (former Microsoft employee)
        Scott Nudds (AKA Vistaking)
        Erik Funkenbusch (formerly an anti-OS/2 astroturfer)
        flatfish+++
        Damian O'Leary (AKA Hadron Quark)
        Nedd Ludd
        Tim Smith
        OK
        DFS
        Lintard
        Terry
        Ana Thema

Take everything posted by the individuals above with grain of salt. Microsoft
has already been caught paying forum members to spread lies about rivals,
e.g. http://worldcadaccess.typepad.com/gizmos/2005/11/2_grassroots_an.html

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