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What Sun's acquisition of MySQL means for the software industry | The Open Road - The Business and Politics of Open Source by Matt Asay - CNET Blogs

Sun Microsystems has acquired MySQL for $1 billion in cash and options. That's now old news. The implications of the deal, however, have yet to be felt, but this deal means several key things for open source.

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What Benchmark's investment in Ruby on Rails support should tell us | The Open Road - The Business and Politics of Open Source by Matt Asay - CNET Blogs

It may mean that Benchmark knows something that the rest of the industry seems determined to ignore: services-based businesses may well be the future of the software industry.

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Mozilla Takes on Microsoft in China

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Lessons from Google and Red Hat for Facebook and open source | The Open Road - The Business and Politics of Open Source by Matt Asay - CNET Blogs

The general principle seems to be to drive abundance (whatever the means) and then sell minimization of complexity as a value derived from that abundance. In Google's case, people search randomly for X, but Google points them to advertising that may help

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SourceForge.net puts its commercial hat on | The Open Road - The Business and Politics of Open Source by Matt Asay - CNET Blogs

SourceForge just released its SourceForge Marketplace, and it promises to shake up the way open source is bought and sold. The SourceForge Marketplace complements commercial and community efforts to directly monetize open-source projects.

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A perceived lack of long-term support continues to hold back open source, survey finds | The Open Road - The Business and Politics of Open Source by Matt Asay - CNET Blogs

Actuate's 2007 survey of enterprise adoption of open source is out, and the results point to a massive groundswell of open-source adoption.

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CEO of Mandriva: We will not go to Canossa - No deal with Microsoft

Mandriva believes in interoperability, which must be based on open standards, like ODF. They also believe that software patent threats are just FUD. So no deal with Microsoft from Mandriva.

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Open Solutions Alliance: HOME

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commercial-support

Some free and open-source projects come with commercial-support. Usually a subscription based service is sold offering 24/7 helpdesks and full-time developers who help modifying the system to individual business needs.

FOSS business models

dual-license

Dual licensing is a business model for free and open source software. There is usually one copyleft community license such as GNU GPL and a commercial proprietary license sold for companies who do not want to release their source-code of the application derived from it.

FOSS business models

Once More unto the Breach: The Upside of Open Source (Business): Community

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