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 | | Open Solutions Alliance | November 2007 |
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| A Throat to Choke –
OSA Alert Customer Interview
CIOs care more about having "a throat to choke" than cost according to Mike Ryan, the former Chief Architect for the State of Minnesota's Office of Enterprise Technology. Open source code's ability to scale up and work across platforms is very appealing to those in charge of large enterprises, but proprietary systems still have an edge due to large past investments and familiarity. |  |
| The Second Chasm --
OSA Alert Industry Leader Interview
In his newsletter, Open Source Commentary, Navica CEO Bernard Golden argues that open source vendors face a “second chasm” between paying and non-paying customers. He suggests that the path toward "monetizing" open source is to sell it like insurance rather than like a typical software product. |  |
| Take Care of Your Bees --
OSA Alert Member Interview
Leverage open source's advantages to compete directly in the commerical market with proprietary software, says Open IT Works CEO Michael Grove, in a mild critique of Bernard Golden's "second chasm" concept. Inspired by open source, Open IT Works has pioneered the concept of "collabsourcingTM" to help companies save money on development by working together. |  |
| | Copyright 2007. OSA Alert is published by the Open Solutions Alliance. Please contact the editor, Mike Takamoto, with your questions, comments and reprint requests. |
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