Re: [ox-en] lovely ibm mantra
- From: Michael Bouwens <michelsub2003 yahoo.com>
- Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 04:07:38 -0800 (PST)
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Interesting. Thanks
Here is some related material, part of the next 2 P2P News letters, at the bottom of this issue, I have compiled the special issues dealing with peer production and capitalism
http://www.bubblegeneration.com/2005/11/peer-production-peer-production.cfm
click on the 2 presentations on the right, the most advanced thinking I have seen on integrating peer production within capitalism
and here's a statement by Sun CEO:
Peer Production (4): Open Source as a Revenue Model
http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/jonathan?entry=free_like_a_puppy
2. Open Source as a revenue model
Sun doesn't have a single customer, worldwide, that will run an unsupported product in their datacenter. Do such customers exist? Surely. They're called developers. Or startups. Or companies or economies that want to build their own internal support teams. That's the target for the Solaris Enterprise System. That's who uses free software without support contracts. And you're not going to win them over if you don't provide them with free and open source products. And if you don't provide them with the technology to use, they'll find someone else's free products. Opening up the Solaris Enterprise System, and giving it away for free, lowers the barrier to finding those opportunities. Free software creates volumes that lead the demand for deployments - which generate license and\n support revenues just as they did before the products were free. Free software grows revenue opportunities.
Opening up Solaris and giving it away for free has led to the single largest wave of adoption Solaris has ever seen - some 3.4 million licenses since February this year (most on HP, curiously). It\'s been combined with the single largest expansion in its revenue base. I believe the same will apply to the Java Enterprise System, its identity management and business integration suites specifically. Why?
Because no Fortune 2000 customer on earth is going to run the heart of their enterprise with products that don\'t have someone\'s home number on the other end. And no developer or developing nation, presented with an equivalent or better free and open source product, is going to opt for a proprietary alternative.
Those two points are the market\'s reality. And having reviewed them today at length at a customer conference, with some\n of the largest telecommunications customers on earth, I only heard the strongest agreement. They all, after all, are prolific distributors of free handsets.
Betting against FOSS is like betting against gravity. And free software doesn\'t mean no revenue, it means no barriers to revenue. Just ask your carrier.
3. More informatin
The open source competitor to Word is approaching 50m downloads
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/applications/0,39020384,39231617,00.htm
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Opening up the Solaris Enterprise System, and giving it away for free, lowers the barrier to finding those opportunities. Free software creates volumes that lead the demand for deployments - which generate license and support revenues just as they did before the products were free. Free software grows revenue opportunities.
Opening up Solaris and giving it away for free has led to the single largest wave of adoption Solaris has ever seen - some 3.4 million licenses since February this year (most on HP, curiously). It's been combined with the single largest expansion in its revenue base. I believe the same will apply to the Java Enterprise System, its identity management and business integration suites specifically. Why?
Because no Fortune 2000 customer on earth is going to run the heart of their enterprise with products that don't have someone's home number on the other end. And no developer or developing nation, presented with an equivalent or better free and open source product, is going to opt for a proprietary alternative.
Those two points are the market's reality. And having reviewed them today at length at a customer conference, with some of the largest telecommunications customers on earth, I only heard the strongest agreement. They all, after all, are prolific distributors of free handsets.
Betting against FOSS is like betting against gravity. And free software doesn't mean no revenue, it means no barriers to revenue. Just ask your carrier.
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for further info, see the special issue at http://integralvisioning.org/index.php?topic=p2p
- Issue 110 = Peer Production;
Issue 103 = Funding for Peer Production;
Issue 101-102 = P2P and Market Exchange
Issue 98 = 1) P2P Economic Governance , tools; 2) P2P and Capitalism;
Issue 92 = 1) Peer Production
Issue 87 = 1) P2P Capitalism; 2) P2P Hierarchy Theory;
Geert Lovink <geert xs4all.nl> wrote: http://www.alwayson-network.com/comments.php?id=13664_0_43_0_C
Big Blue Bit by the Blogging Bug
Blogging, just like the Internet, World Wide Web, Linux, and open
source, is a major initiative in the marketplace that we should be part
of.
By Irving Wladawsky-Berger [IBM] |
Earlier this week, the Journal News published an interesting article
on IBM's blogging initiative?"Big Blue Bit by the Blogging Bug" written
by reporter Julie Moran Alterio, who interviewed me for the article.
She asked me why IBM encouraged its employees to participate in the
blogging community, to which I replied that "we absolutely recognize
that blogging, just like the Internet, World Wide Web, Linux, and open
source, is a major initiative in the marketplace that we should be part
of. The best way to be part of it is not to observe it passively but to
do it actively." I also commented on the difference between blogs and
other more institutional, less personal forms of communication: "Even
if you're writing about mainframes or you're writing about XML, it's
your personal style that comes across. What you choose to write about
is which of the contents of your head are you sharing with the world."
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