Open source is starting to make a dent in proprietary software fortune

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Nice article but this has been this is not really a new thing.

 

Proprietary software is dead. That's what we've been saying ever since Linux appeared, yet every year the Microsofts and Oracles of the world keep selling billions of dollars worth of software. And while there are clear signs that the proprietary party is slowing down, that hasn't necessarily translated into open source victory.

 

According to a new Deutsche Bank Securities analysis ("The Torvalds Legacy - The Rise of Open Source"), however, open source's "disruption risk appears to be rising."

 

A lot has changed in the past 20 years relative to open source, but one thing remains true: there is only one billion-dollar open-source vendor, Red Hat. While there are a number of companies that make billions selling other services on top of open source, only Red Hat has managed to turn open source into big business.

 

That may be about to change, according to Deutsche Bank's research:

 

"Compared to the environment in the 1990's when Red Hat was scaling up and threatening Microsoft, open source has gone mainstream inside many large enterprises and there are dozens of credible open-source software vendors that have reached the scale necessary to service large and demanding enterprise customers.

 

"The incumbent and closed sourced software vendors themselves understand the appeal, as internally they are integrating more and more open-source components within their own offerings. Enterprise software is no longer built from the ground up; it is borrowed and patched together using open-source components, that's the new reality......"

 

http://www.techrepub...ftware-fortunes

[V.T. Eric Layton]

Saw this elsewhere yesterday.

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Right....

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Probably the same place you saw it, actually.

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Well I got it from Reddit but seen it on G+ too.

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Well at the latest count there are 2600 versions of Linux available .So with a flood like that there is nearly a distro to suit all tastes

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Well at the latest count there are 2600 versions of Linux available .So with a flood like that there is nearly a distro to suit all tastes

 

Wow, I never heard of that one

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Do you got a link as I couldn't find it on mobile.

[Capt.Crow]

Linux questions.org /community bulletin

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http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/community-bulletin-archive-32/linuxquestions-org-community-bulletin-4175503498/