The Standish Group (Who’s that?) is reporting that open source is robbing those poor, starving proprietary software companies of $60 billion in revenue each year. From the report:
Open Source software is raising havoc throughout the software market. It is the ultimate in disruptive technology, and while to it is only 6% of estimated trillion [...]
Posted by Charles Babcock
I see references to the open source “movement,” as if it were a cohesive ideological gathering, like the Labor Movement of the 1930s or maybe the Wobblies. I agree there are certain shared values among open source developers and a favored way of doing things, but I’ve always doubted the political agenda. [...]
What do you get if you couple an email from Kevin Johnson, Microsoft president of the company Platforms & Services Division, to employees about the Yahoo deal and the software giant’s pledge to be more interoperable with the open source world? One big moment to prove Microsoft is serious about this interoperability thing.
Yahoo could [...]
For years, the poster child of the anti-open source movement was Microsoft, with its proprietary software model. In recent years, however, the company has changed its views, starting an open source software lab to work on interoperability issues. It’s even become a purveyor of its own open source-approved licenses.
What do these efforts mean? For Sam [...]
Should Microsoft’s bid for Yahoo! go through, the combined company would face one very major infrastructure question - how far is it willing to go in the war against Google?
According to some, Google enjoys a major cost savings advantage over its rivals through a series of bespoke data centers. The ad broker crafts its own [...]
