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There many success stories in opensource companies but they are not as open as redhat nor as succesdful as redhat. There is a consulting company over the corner
by alsadi 10y ago
There many success stories in opensource companies but they are not as open as redhat nor as succesdful as redhat.
There is a consulting company over the corner that customizes opensource software at small scale. There coreos, percona, suse,...
Oracle is the only multi billion dollar database-centric company.
Faceboom is the only successful social media (twitter is micro blogging or whatever you call it)
Microsoft is the only desktop blah blah
Amazon blah blah
That is a result of being early, acquire many small successful companies ex. Kvm, ceph, Ansible,...
And being really truely opensource.
No one else is truely opensource, ex. Mysql used to sell exceptions and prosperity features instead of selling Enterprise support.
- Arizhel 10y ago>Faceboom is the only successful social media Was that a Freudian slip or something? :-) I'm going to have to remember that one.