For those of you not familiar with commercial open source software – which I will now refer to as COSS (hey, I’m an analyst, it’s my job to create acronyms) – it is essentially a business model loosely tied to the concept of “freemium.” On one hand a vendor provides a free, open source offering [...]
Entries from November 2009
Commercial Open Source Software – Caveat Emptor
November 9th, 2009 · 8 Comments
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Open Source & Business Apps – Is There A Disconnect?
November 3rd, 2009 · 4 Comments
Why is it that Open Source Software hasn’t had as big an impact in the area of business applications as it has for infrastructure software? It’s a question that regularly circulates around Gartner.
[note: by "business application" I'm referring to the acronym-laden category of software that encompasses an organization's business processes - things like ERP, SCM, [...]
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