Services like Wikipedia and Flickr get (well-deserved) good press because the products they offer are functional, effective, and–most important–free. Inspired, I decided to look for other emerging free software. I was surprised by the quantity and quality of product available for download.
To make the list, the product or service had to [...]
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Free Software
November 14th, 2005 · Comments · Business Models, Open Source
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User Generated Content and the “Contribution Economy”
August 28th, 2005 · Comments · Business Models, Open Source
As I mentioned earlier, open source has already had an enormous impact on companies building traditional enterprise software. There are many new opportunities, also, in what Fortune’s David Kirkpatrick calls “the contribution economy” (Jeremy Levine expands here, in a nice post–hat tip to him for finding Kirkpatrick’s original article). In a nutshell: various [...]
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FLOSS and its impact on enterprise software
August 25th, 2005 · Comments · Enterprise software, Open Source
It’s amazing how quickly the technology industry changes. Until recently, enterprise software companies held an enviable position. The combined market cap of Microsoft, SAP, Seibel, and Oracle approached $800 billion (by way of comparison, Australia’s GDP in 2001 was $611 billion). It’s an understatement to say things have changed: multiples have compressed, revenue growth curves [...]
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