When open source moves from evangelism to implementation
Dogma is nice, but it doesn’t pay the bills.
That’s the lesson I’ve learned over the past few years, and one that my good friend–and Sun vice president of lifecycle management–Zack Urlocker illustrates on his Infoworld blog. The big turning point in my own open-source evolution–the one that made me happy to be a flip-flopper–was being handed a sales quota at Alfresco, which grew increasingly large while simultaneously difficult to achieve while giving everything away in the spirit of free love and free software.
I’m not alone in this. As it turns out, the entire industry has shifted as open source has become an integral part of enterprise IT and the vendors that serve it. Even companies like Sun, which went into its MySQL acquisition with an “everything must be free” mentality, have rightly shifted over time.
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