Dave Rosenberg is worried about Sun, a question discussed here last week.

“If it fails,” he writes, “Sun will be the harbinger of sorrow for the rest of the open source world.”

The open source business, yes. The open source world? Not so much.
Open source is a fact of life. Gartner Group estimates all large businesses will be deploying it within a year. Linux is extending its reach from the server to the client. Open source applications like Firefox are highly competitive.

On the other hand, the open source business model is not doing so well. It’s not bringing in the green. When given something for free and then asked to buy support, most customers say “thanks, but no thanks” especially when times get tough.

But there is a lot more to the open source story than the vendor’s perspective.

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