by Brett Shoemaker on February 13, 2008
I continue to be surprised by the amount of weight given to downloads as a metric for OSS success. A topic Matt Asay also touched on recently over at The Open Road . Like Matt, I’m talking OSS at the product or company level (i.e., not OSS projects) and by success I mean sales. For me, a high number of downloads only signals that people are willing to trial a product. Downloads do not equal actual... more
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by Brett Shoemaker on February 01, 2008
As an open source business strategy lead here at Microsoft, I am particularly interested in community reaction following acquisition waves like the one we have seen recently ( Sun/MySQL , Nokia/Trolltech , SpringSource/Covalent , etc.). While I am interested in reaction to each announcement individually, I find those that attempt to extrapolate what the event says about the broader OSS landscape especially... more
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