5 ms·
Exactly. Of the three, Red Hat was the only one that was formed around open source, and the only one whose open source business model wasn't born in the desper
by michael_dorfman 16y ago
Exactly. Of the three, Red Hat was the only one that was formed around open source, and the only one whose open source business model wasn't born in the desperation of a previous, successful closed source business model collapsing.
- Supermighty 16y agoSun and Novell were in the process of a pivot whereby they would have set their business model around open source. They just didn't do it well enough.
- michael_dorfman 16y agoHas anyone successfully made that particular pivot?
- chrisaycock 16y agoIBM, to some degree. They launched Global Services long before it was fashionable. Louis Gerstner explains in Who Says Elephants Can't Dance? that there was tremendous doubt in the 1990's that consulting was the way to go, but he realized early on that the world "didn't need another hard drive maker" and decided that IBM could provide value best by acting as the integrator of smaller companies' components.