Sun Micro CEO Jonathan Schwartz on the Future of Open Source
“Free is a universal price, requires no currency translation, and reaches the longest tail of the market,” writes Sun Microsystems CEO Jonathan Schwartz in a post today on OStatic regarding the future of open source, and the Internet’s most valuable brands, he notes — from Amazon to Google to Skype to Facebook — all offer users something for free. Schwartz touches on a wide range of topics related to open source’s future, from changes in the global economy to open source as a business model, as well as Sun’s cloud computing initiatives.
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Clubbing everyone who is someway involved with opensource or as some free option is misleading. Today – it is well known that in areas with next to zero distribution costs – you get more via giving away something free to get the user hooked on rather than charge for it.
The real question is that will the phase-customer-in and charge as insurance policy model of open source really work.
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http://www.gandalf-lab.com/blog/2009/03/death-of-billion-dollar-opensource.html
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