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May 19, 2004
Open Source business thermodynamics?
The more companies (like Intel) invest into Open Source companies (like JBoss), the less you will be able to tell the difference between JBoss and a proprietary software company (like say Bea). A bit like the universe expanding until it reaches a uniform temperature. This means that there will exist a point in the future where enough investment money will have been sucked up by the Open Source companies to make them indistinguishable. And everyone will wonder where they've suddenly gone....poof...
Posted by Matthew at May 19, 2004 09:43 PM
Comments
An interesting comment by a friend this week: there are lots of studies by the big consulting companies out there that leave the OSS solutions out because they can't put a price tag on them, and that would make their comparison more difficult. He mentioned an expensive study on Application Servers not mentioning JBoss - and a portal study not mentioning Cocoon.
Posted by: Frank Koehntopp at May 20, 2004 09:52 PM