Open source business model reaching tipping point. Over the last several years open source has grown in stature and maturity, becoming more worthy in the eyes of corporate buyers and investors.
Everyone could point to Red Hat, which dominates the Linux operating system space, as the poster child for open source but few other "pure" open source companies rose up to that level. Sun has gradually been making its vast portfolio of software open source under various licenses, embracing the notion of FOSS (Free and Open Source Software). “Volume drives everything, and developers are picking free and open source software,” Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz has said. "Now just to relay my bias, if you had to ask me what's the most important initial in free and open source software, to me, if you want to reach the broadest marketplace in the world there's one price that works for everyone, and that's free… and so the free part is what we've been focused on," Schwartz said in 2005 during a keynote at JavaOne.
Whatever You Call It, Web 2.0 Is Driving Enterprise Software. Silicon Valley VCs predict tech winners, losers. In what has become an annual Silicon Valley ritual, leading venture capitalists have made their predictions about which technologies will thrive and which will take a dive in the near future.
The fact that they don't all agree made for some lively discussion Tuesday at an event in San Jose, California, called the Top 10 Tech Trends Debate. The ninth annual event, which drew 800 people to a hotel ballroom dinner, was hosted by the Churchill Club, a public affairs forum. Web 2.0 Losing Steam?