The Elephant in the Room Jun 12, 2008, 01 :30 UTC (0 Talkback[s]) (2671 reads) (Other stories by Matthew Aslett)
"Continuing the ongoing discussion about open source software business models, Rich Sharples of Red Hat's JBoss division weighs in on an issue I have with Savio Rodrigues's categorization of open source users: namely the fact that it does not take into account the value of the application in question.
"As Rich points out, Savio's categorization assumes that a business acts the same way for all applications. 'rarely have I identified an organization that would be easy to pigeon-hole into Category A or Category B (or C for that matter). What I have seen are many cases where an organization exhibits a Category A or Category B behaviour (and often both),' he writes..."
