:ZDNet UK: Open Source Projects 'Need More Customer Focus'
ZDNet UK: Open Source Projects 'Need More Customer Focus' Jun 3, 2005, 17 :30 UTC (14 Talkback[s]) (9815 reads) (Other stories by Ingrid Marson)
"Open source projects need to be more customer focussed if they are to succeed in the corporate marketplace, according to several companies attending the Holland Open Software Conference in Amsterdam this week.
"Alan Williamson, an open source evangelist at IT services company SpikeSource, said that one reason open source projects fail is that some developers do not think about the features that customers will need..."