:PC Week: Open source is (so far) an open road to nowhere
PC Week: Open source is (so far) an open road to nowhere May 1, 2000, 17 :43 UTC (40 Talkback[s]) (9718 reads) (Other stories by John Taschek)
"John Patrick, the closest thing IBM has
to a cult hero, calls Linux a disruptive
technology. Patrick's referring to the
phenomenon described by Clayton M.
Christensen in the book "The
Innovator's Dilemma" as a technology
that sneaks up on established vendors because they
are too blinded by their own visions to realize that the
technology is a threat in the first place."
"Linux is not a disruptive technology. It's an operating
system, and OSes aren't a threat to anyone--and if
they were, it surely wouldn't be a good thing. Patrick
apparently is referring to the open-source movement
and the sea change behind Linux that has made it
unsettling to more than one or two OS vendors."
"What amazes me the most is that open source has
gained so much momentum without showing any
goods. It's a dot-com--all hype and speculation and no
fundamentals. It's like an onion in a bushel of apples.
Someone might notice that it looks and tastes different,
but peel away its layers, and there's nothing there."
