Does the very existence of Google and Yahoo, efforts by Sun and IBM, most scientific computing, the entire LAMP ecosystem, etc sort of make that point moot? Just don’t understand the whole Gartner report hoopla. Who reads these reports anyway? There’s rarely anything insightful there anyway.
People still think of IT in yesterdays terms. We need to think differently, around more distributed systems, around a few large infrastructure providers who enable our capabilities. People keep trying to think of open source as a business model, when it should be better thought of as part of a platform strategy, and going forward just part of the fabric of the web.
Why do we still keep trying to justify open source?
Does the very existence of Google and Yahoo, efforts by Sun and IBM, most scientific computing, the entire LAMP ecosystem, etc sort of make that point moot? Just don’t understand the whole Gartner report hoopla. Who reads these reports anyway? There’s rarely anything insightful there anyway.
People still think of IT in yesterdays terms. We need to think differently, around more distributed systems, around a few large infrastructure providers who enable our capabilities. People keep trying to think of open source as a business model, when it should be better thought of as part of a platform strategy, and going forward just part of the fabric of the web.