[Discussioni] NEWS: Will major vendors dilute open source?

[Alberto Cammozzo]

http://www.networkworld.com/news/2006/022006-open-source.html?t5&story=3-0217

By Jennifer Mears and Ann Bednarz, Network World, 02/20/06

	Interesanti riflessioni in merito alle recenti acquisizioni di 
	ditte che produzono software open.

Commercial software giants such as Oracle and IBM are moving deeper into and changing the face of the open source community by snapping up start-ups. 

Though arguably in its early stages, the trend is accelerating.
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"The jig is up for commercial vendors," says Richard Monson-Haefel, a senior analyst at Burton Group. "They're discovering that in certain cases open source software is basically pulling the rug out from under them by commoditizing the market."

"They've tried to resist . . . originally by spreading fear, uncertainty and doubt, and then by challenging the quality of the software. But now they're buying the companies that are sponsoring the [open source] work," he says.

Gartner predicts that by 2010, software vendors that don't incorporate open source software into their products risk becoming uncompetitive because of the cost associated with relying on in-house engineering resources. 
[...]

	Sulle prime viene da pensare che la mossa sia:
	"se non puoi batterli, comprali", ma dato che le ditte OS 
	non "possiedono" il codice in senso tradizionele, il senso 
	delle acquisizioni deve essere quello di accedere alle 
	competenze dei programmatori e al parco clienti.
	Una eventuale proprietarizzazione del prodotto
	pare improbabile, dato il rischio di perdere sviluppatori
	e clienti, per i queli lo status del prodotto non
	puo' essere indifferente.

	Che ne pensate?

	

	Alberto