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New OSS Doomed In Enterprise?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the don't-kill-the-penguin dept.

Rob wrote to mention a Computer Business Review Online article which posits that immature open source software is doomed in an enterprise environment nowadays. From the article: "Open-source startups and relative newcomers must target a new breed of CIOs, which Graf dubs chief process innovation officers. Rather than old-school CIOs who focus on a company's data management, these guys design processes with the company's network. "If you want to become strategic to the company, you need to deal with business processors. 'The key question for open source is, Which open source technologies are mature enough to survive the consolidation that's coming?' Graf said. 'Linux? Definitely. Eclipse? Definitely. Mozilla? Most likely.'"

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  1. Re:Maven 2 by Karma+Farmer · · Score: 2, Funny

    Maven has come quite a ways in the past year as well.

    Uwe Boll says "BloodRayne" is ten times bettern than "Alone in the Dark."

    That doesn't mean I'm going to run out and buy a copy of BloodRayne anytime soon.

  2. Re:Immature is always doomed by gad_zuki! · · Score: 3, Funny

    >Of course immature OSS is doomed in the Enterprise.

    Yeah, but you know Geordi runs it anyway.

  3. Re:OSS will almost always be doomed in Enterprise. by yfkar · · Score: 3, Funny
    No, the MS EULA does not mean that they can't be held accountable for anything, even if the EULA says so.

    Whether they can be held accountable is up for the courts to decide.

  4. I knew it! by MarkusQ · · Score: 2, Funny

    I thought to myself as I typed that line: sure as anything, someone will point out that somewhere it's been done.

    But then I though: you're just being silly. A cow with an IPod!?

    Thanks for confirming my belief that, with enough eyeballs, you can find a real world example of any random joke.

    --MarkusQ