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http://dtrace.org/blogs/bmc/2004/08/28/the-economics-of-software/ http://dtrace.org/blogs/bmc/2004/08/28/the-economics-of-soft... seems pretty prescient given t
by Jach 9y ago
http://dtrace.org/blogs/bmc/2004/08/28/the-economics-of-software/ http://dtrace.org/blogs/bmc/2004/08/28/the-economics-of-soft... seems pretty prescient given the glut of open source we find ourselves enjoying today. I do agree a lot of it can be credited to the GNU model, that is aligning on values over other things, but once more and more companies started understanding the economics that was immensely helpful too.
- rdtsc 9y agoThat's a good post from Brian, can't believe I haven't see it yet. Thanks for sharing. > seems pretty prescient given the glut of open source we find ourselves enjoying today. Indeed, even regarding databases: [from blog post] > Yes, there have been traditional demand-side efforts like MySQL and research efforts like PostgreSQL, but neither of these “good enough” efforts has actually been good enough to compete with Informix, Oracle, Look at PostgreSQL today -- it's got a variety of indexing options, scalability improvements and various other things. It hasn't displaced Oracle but it's certainly not a research effort anymore.