Gapingvoid on Software Business Strategy...

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re: Gapingvoid on Software Business Strategy...

davidmeyer — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 15:20:36 GMT

I am going to say something I never thought I would say...Open Source across the board doesn't work well for most companies.

I work for a large software manufacturer right now. While a while ago I would have told you that all companies can run on Linux and Open Source, the truth is, they can not.

Standardization is playing a much bigger role in every IT department I walk into now, and it is hard to even attempt to justify using something other than proven technology to run your enterprise. Outlook and Exchange work exceedingly well. MSSQL is the standard in most places I go. Apache still beats out IIS in most of my customers, but they are split 50/50 on Windows or Linux for the platform it runs on.

My point...I have spend the past four years preaching Open Source and Linux. My flag has changed colors now...it just took a while to admit to myself that the beast is what it is...and while Open Source and Linux have their place, that place isn't every place.

re: Gapingvoid on Software Business Strategy...

stromdotcom — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 02:20:09 GMT

"Otherwise there'd be a lot more famous Open Source billionaires out there, being written up in Forbes Magazine or wherever. And Bill Gates would've been ousted years ago."

Interesting response to this found on Digg this morning: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000842.html

Summary:

"If you wanted to become obscenely rich by starting an open source software company, I'm sorry, but you picked the wrong industry. You'll make a living, perhaps even a lucrative one. But you won't become Bill Gates rich, or Paul Allen rich, by siphoning away the exorbitant profit margins commercial software vendors have enjoyed for so many years."

Also, in response to the original question:

"How well does open source currently meet the needs of shareholders and CEO's?"

Answer: probably not well. Shareholders in particular often have weird needs.

It is interesting though just looking at the social bookmarking links across the top of this page. The majority are running Linux + Apache + PHP and more likely than not, MySQL. Live.com would be the exception, I imagine.

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