Red Hat Is Last Man Standing in Open Source Market
I took flak recently concerning a blog post that said that Red Hat was no different than IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, and most other enterprise software suppliers in terms of business model, despite statements to the contrary by Red Hat CEO James Whitehurst. My blog post was not a criticism of Red Hat, just an observation.
Most of the flak was knee-jerk open-source-zealot stuff with no IT investment research implications. But the comments got me thinking back to a more than three-year-old IT investment research project in which a client asked me to provide various investment-related characteristics of the then “leading” open source projects. In doing the research I could define “leading” any way I wanted to but I knew the client was looking for ways to cash in on the then imminent boom in “open-source-software vendor” IPOs. Therefore some of the most important characteristics were that the “open source software” was not managed by a company that was already publicly held and that the software participated in a part of the software market characterized by growth and vitality.
I identified about 100 projects to look at as part of a first cut.
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