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April 24, 2005
Spike Source is the tip of the iceburg.
Reading this post by ZDNET blogers Dan Farber and Daivd Berlind they say that SpikeSource and other companies doing similar things are just the tip of the iceburg in terms of potential open source business models.
They quote Doc in a recent Linux Journal Article..
The fact is, or will be, far more money will be made because of open source than will be made with open source–or with any of the infrastructural (in Tom’s words, vanilla) software it replaces. Think of open-source infrastructure as a huge, flat cake on which you can build a vast new market for any kind of topping you like. A cake which, by the way, only gets bigger.
We have another word for that cake, one I know Tom (Frieman author of Flatland) likes: a marketplace. The open-source marketplace isn’t for open-source goods. It’s for what you can build on them and with them. There’s no telling how big that market will be. We do know, though, that it’s flat and seems to go on forever in all directions.
Just this morning I was listening to R0ml's talk at OSBC '04 and he was talking about more missing open source projects. It seems that these four missing projects offer who ever does them an opportunity to make a lot of money. One of them has already happened SugarCRM.
Posted by Kaliya at April 24, 2005 12:58 AM