Open source infiltration?
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| You can't count on users to sneak open source in. What you can count on to
| promote open source is, surprisingly, ease of use. Since most of the open
| source applications still have a substantial user base of people who do the
| install, support the software, and run the software themselves, they don't
| become bad software as fast. As I wrote before, there are two kinds of
| business software.
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| 1. Good software. The person who decides to use the software, and the
| actual user of the software, are the same person.
| 2. Bad software. This is software that one person chooses, and that a
| person who did not make the decision has to use.
|
| While proprietary desktop software often has enough chooser-users to avoid
| becoming Bad Software, proprietary business apps are typically expensive
| enough that they can't not go that way.
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http://www.linuxworld.com/community/?q=node/3911
Why “how” is the most important question open source vendors can answer
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| It occurred to me that “how” rather than “why” is the most significant
| question that open source vendors and projects should be answering right now
| as they try to encourage greater adoption of open source software.
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http://blogs.the451group.com/opensource/2008/04/11/why-how-is-the-most-important-question/
Recent:
VC funding for open source hits an all-time high
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| Incidentally, total funding to date stands at $2.64bn.
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http://blogs.the451group.com/opensource/2008/04/01/vc-funding-for-open-source-hits-an-all-time-high/
Open-source venture investing hits an all-time high
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| Just when you thought venture interest in open source was quieting down,
| along comes the biggest quarter in open source's (still young) history:
| $203.75 million raised, as reported by The 451 Group. This trumped the
| previous record of $193.6 million from Q4 2006.
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http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9907679-7.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=NewsBlog
How Open Technology Could Lead Us Out Of Recession
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| At the same time, the United States has not only lost its former dominance in
| world technology, it is rapidly achieving a status of "a nation of
| shopkeepers".
|
| We need to remove the barriers to entering the market. We need to be the
| innovators in science and technology again. We need to regain the excitement
| we had about scientific progress back in the 1940's and 1950's. We need
| technicians in white lab coats, and we need to look up to them because they
| are giving us wonderful things like atomic power and trips to the moon again.
| We need kids to be excited about getting a chemistry set again. We need to
| let those garage start-ups break out of that garage and open up their own
| factory. We need to bring back homebrew computer clubs. We need people who
| can say that they know something about computers besides how to turn one on.
|
| In short, we need more geeks. Geeks make money.
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http://penguinpetes.com/b2evo/index.php?title=how_open_technology_could_lead_us_out_of&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1
No Recession at Red Hat
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| It is flattering to be mentioned, Mr. Whitehurst said, but he noted that
| corporate customers and the industry benefit from what he called Red
| Hat’s “Switzerland status” — not being a province of one of the major powers
| in the technology industry.
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http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/03/27/no-recession-at-red-hat/
Sun: Economic slowdown favors open source
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| Speaking to ZDNetAsia in an exclusive interview, he said the economic
| slowdown in the United States will favor open source companies. "During an
| economic slowdown, not everything slows down [and] IT projects will continue
| to be undertaken. But IT budgets will be reduced," he said, noting that
| companies will then turn to lower cost software options such as open source.
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http://www.zdnetasia.com/news/software/0,39044164,62038598,00.htm
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