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Open Source Services Come of Age

Posted by samzenpus on from the all-grown-up dept.

Rob writes "A new breed of solutions and services companies is bringing a more professional approach to the deployment of open source software. A sure sign of a maturing market is when vendors stop talking about products and start talking about services and 'solution stacks'. It can be indicative that the marketing team have taken over from the engineers in charge of presenting the company to the outside world, but also shows that customers are demanding a more professional approach towards the deployment of the technology. This is certainly the case in the open source software market, where a clutch of new solutions and services companies have recently sprung up to guide enterprise customers through the difficulties of open source software deployment."

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  1. I don't get it... by Psychor · · Score: 3, Funny

    That's strange, earlier today Slashdot was reporting that Linux developers were too old to cater for young people, and now they are celebrating coming of age. I guess it's time to buy Tux a zimmer frame.

  2. You know... by showardkid · · Score: 4, Funny

    I think that solution stacks are good, especially if you wish to envisioneer web-enabled content through branding front-end e-services.

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  3. Good by zegebbers · · Score: 3, Funny

    it means they can use the yahoo chatrooms!

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  4. Fantastic! by Digital+Vomit · · Score: 3, Funny
    A sure sign of a maturing market is when vendors stop talking about products and start talking about services and 'solution stacks'.

    I can finally leverage my business paradigms with open-source solution stacks!

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  5. You need... by DavidNWelton · · Score: 4, Funny

    ... a linguistic solution stack in order to take away added value from your interaction with the marketing engineers. The correct solution stack will enable your business to meet your customers' complete needs for delivery of verbal content designed to maximize their confidence in your area of core expertise - providing software solutions. This is a win-win situation that allows you to focus on excellence while obtaining a higher margin for the same mature products, and maintain a high-quality relationship with your clients. ...Phew!... that's hard...

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