Is the Whole World Going Open Source?

Man, if I only had the time to participate in meetings like this one included within this post… There was some great stuff being covered during this meeting and I have a number of things that I would have liked to contributed myself.

Notes from a panel at AO on Is the Whole World Going Open Source. Here is the video and chat archive of the session.

Ray Lane
Industry being democratized. Interesting developments from other parts of the world. Business models changing, the focus of Software CEOs, they know they need to change to something different from a salesperson pitching software for perpetual use. Top 15 companies represent 84% of revenue. Hundreds of companies without profit or value. MSFT, ORCL, SAP = 75% of Profit pool.

Rahul Kapoor
Business rationale: open source is more stable and secure. Diversity in open and closed source products and licenses. We are still at the infancy of the open source, but what is mature is more stable. Linux or Apache. [Read the rest]