In general, the perception of risk equals the presence of risk.Like "truthiness", risk is in the eye of the beholder. Which leaves me working to help sell a software-based solution for a problem that exists, for the most part, in people's heads. Open source software vendor, or psychiatrist, you be the judge. Also, potential hole in the business plan – what happens when people finally wise up?
Monday, June 01, 2009
Riskiness
Bill Dollins nails it:
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I think the market needed to see a price on Open Source solutions after they got the change to discover, install and try.
Maybe other companies involved in OS will do it ... and maybe with a higher and more reasonable price than what we see now with MapGuide Enterprise...
like Bill puts it "Nobody with funding authority in any enterprise believes in a free lunch (or free beer) and with good reason: it doesn’t exist. Everything costs something."
It's all good for entrepreneurs looking for a new venture involving pushing OS :)
It seems to have served RedHat well as a business model
Well..... I didn't know I had a problem but, since you're selling a cure, where do I sign up?
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