How to make money out of Open Source

Wednesday, April 16. 2008

How to make money out of Open Source

Well, one way is to write a report on it and charge $1,000 a throw for the report

"Open Source software is raising havoc throughout the software market. It is the ultimate in disruptive technology, and while to it is only 6% of estimated trillion dollars IT budgeted annually, it represents a real loss of $60 billion in annual revenues to software companies," said Jim Johnson, Chairman, The Standish Group International"

I'd have been more comfortable with a range of values though......I can't believe that at this stage this isn't a hugely SWAG game

Thanks for link to Simon Wardley

Posted by Alan Patrick in Open Source at 22:44 | Comment (1) | Trackbacks (0)

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Just click to make open money????/
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#1 jaya (Homepage) on 2008-04-18 07:15 (Reply)

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