Open source has yet to learn it pays to advertise

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Companies making money from open source.

Well, there's Red Hat... and there's Red Hat and, oh yes, I remember, Red Hat.

There are ways to save expenses with open source, but that's different from making money with open source.

If a company sells a product other than open source software, then any open source used is a way to avoid the cost of IT (read: staff). If a company provides solutions built atop open source or proprietary software interchangeably, that's not an open source company. If a company, like Oracle, owns open source products, but makes its money from proprietary software, that's not an open source company.

It's possible to argue that open source as a commercial product has recovered from the stock market collapse about as well as Sun. It's more difficult to argue the alternative.



You do have a good point, though. Without money for advertising and other forms of marketing, any company will not turn into a $1+ billion leviathon. Which is necessary in a consolidating/consolidated industry like software.

Posted by: Anton Philidor   Posted on: 06/17/08 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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