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04 Mar 08
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If you want to identify emerging trends, follow what the developers are doing, and many developers are to be found in the open source community. Follow them and they will teach you what will happen in mainstream markets in the future.
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Azure's research has shown that open source adoption is a reinforcing trend. Once a certain industry segment (such as telecommunications or the government sector) starts to understand the benefits of open source, barriers to adopting open source technology will break down, and organizations will start to become more comfortable with open source.
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VC who called us back was Vladimir Jacimovic, a partner at NEA (New Enterprise Associates)
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What I find most compelling in the OSS business models is the recent shift from the support- and services-based revenue models to the commercial open source. In the commercial open source model, about 80 percent of the product functionality is released as OSS, which guarantees a great product for most customers. The remaining 20 percent of functionality, which is useful to only large customers, is released as a low cost commercial product.
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There are two great reasons to invest in the new generation of OSS companies. The first is that they have global reach from day one, and, in many cases, serve emerging markets that were difficult to reach before, such as Brazil, Russia, China, and India. The second reason is that OSS is enabling the creation of thousands of entrepreneurs who open up previously untapped portions of the market. They serve real customers by either developing extensions to the existing OSS products or implementing business solutions that include a lot of OSS."
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22 Jan 08
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