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Will Open Source slay Goliath? Or, will the Giants rules in the year 2010.
The Future of Software
BY CHRISTOPHER KOCH
Scenario One: (see Scenario_One)
A Land Where Giants Rule
"Software Vendors are like dinosaurs-they live in an environment that encourages them to grow really big to survive".........
"In 2010, CIOs will find themselves hostage to a few monopolistic vendors that keep software expensive and complex."
Scenario Two: (see Senario_Two)
Open Source Slays Goliath
"By 2010, European and Asian governments will lead the way toward the adoption of open-source software, and American CIOs happily climb aboard."........
"A market will emerge to service these applications. Small developers will get paid by the line of code, but also for servicing and supporting the stuff they've written. If their client decides to make the code available for incorporation into the open-source package for redistribution, they will be able to sell services to other companies that adopt it. Open source will become a respectable route for startups and individual developers, and proprietary add-ons that need service will attract venture capital money to build real businesses.............
Could it happen? Sure. "All you need is one good set of code out there" to act as a foundation for building the complex software systems, says Jeremy Allison, developer of Samba software. Open source avoids the biggest barrier to entering the software industry: marketing and sales. Open source needs no sales and marketing budget, only a good development leader, quality software and word of mouth for adoption."....