Best Presentation on Software Business and OSS

Posted by kdawson on Monday March 12, 2007 @05:56PM from the Linux-as-Lamborghini dept.

stephe writes "Brent Williams presented 'Open Source Business Models: A Wall Street Look at a Wild 2006 and the Prospects for Even More Fun in 2007' at EclipseCon last Tuesday. Brent is (temporarily) an independent equity research analyst, who moved to Wall Street after 20 years in the software trenches. He starts with a tear-down of the Oracle Linux debate and the Microsoft Novell deal. I especially like his taking apart the commoditization myth and his observations around interface standards versus standards of implementation. He graciously allowed me to post the slides on my blog. They're getting a lot of interest from the open source business crowd, and I thought the Slashdot crowd would want to see them as well. Enjoy."

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Re:The Car/Software analogy strikes again! by Whiney+Mac+Fanboy · 2007-03-12 19:29 · Score: 0, Redundant

I do believe you meant page 43. Page 48 is the last slide.

Weird, you're right that 48 is the last slide, but I see the pic of two car interfaces on page 40....

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