Musings on the world of software from the sharp end of the long tail
Posted in Business on Apr 11th, 2008
We (continue to) live in interesting times. It will be intersting to see how Microsoft fare over the next five years; the knives are drawn – Gartner claims that Microsoft’s troubles are a result of their past success – ie they’re overly burdedned by their installed base in a classic example of the Innovator’s Dilema. [...]
Posted in Business, open source, Red Hat on Mar 18th, 2008
Matt Assay provides some good reading as usual this morning. He’s tried to correlate stock prices of a few companies who base some or part of their business on Open Source with their “Open Source Business Maturity”. Essentially he’s plotted the stock price (ie. the financial market’s appraisal of the company) of Red Hat, Novell [...]