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February 14, 2006
[OSBC] Product pitches
Intermingled with the keynotes this morning were a total of six demos from companies starting up in the Open Source space. They were - in order of appearance - Alfresco, SugarCRM, Project.net, Pentaho, rPath and EnterpriseDB.
Unfortunately - and I guess this is a sign of the times - these were 5 minute product pitches with little to no link-in to Open Source specifics. The tenor was more along the lines of: "This is my product - oh and by the way - it's (now) Open Source."
Another sig(h)n of the growing commercialization in Open Source.
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Posted by Matthew at February 14, 2006 10:18 PM
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Agreed, for the most part. Frustrating, too, since they were explicitly told to demo their products. One would think they'd see a clear reason to talk about their open source nature in that context but, (sigh) nope....
Posted by: Matt Asay at February 16, 2006 03:45 PM