> Do you have some programs that can benefit by having an open source version? It's always and ever beneficial to (have the ability) to look into the source co

> Do you have some programs that can benefit by having an open source version? It's always and ever beneficial to (have the ability) to look into the source code And the price ;) > It will be a wonderful exercise in digging up super expensive programs like this and creating open source versions of it. > They will rescue some hapless programmer and/or provide consulting opportunities for another. It's because SOA failed that this software isn't worth what it was (and still currently is) priced at. It's been unclear, an endeavour, we are going along and we are finding things out. It turned out to the misfortune of big companies, which develop software in the laboratory and to the favour of internet companies (so actual (customer) projects) Things do not work out as people thought. Companies want to make (big) business and in the end there may be almost nothing left (over). I guess it can happen to others, but e.g. open sourcing SAP might be much more of an efford (they have a lot of business know-how in their software)