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Article: The 451 Group: Ignoring Open Source May Expose Enterprise Software Vendors to Significant Risk and Result in Missed Opportunities.
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- December 8, 2005
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NEW YORK -- Exploiting open source strategies can help enterprise software vendors and their investors achieve competitive advantage; Software licensing models that are a hybrid of open and proprietary approaches will proliferate
The 451 Group believes that enterprise software vendors can no longer afford to ignore open source. It is a powerful force of change with both upside and downside potential. In the worst-case scenario, open source can do severe damage - to licensing schemes and to legal definitions of intellectual property - if used improperly. The potential benefits, however, are also massive - making it important to clearly understand the critical path ...