“A Melbourne company is the first in Australia to be accredited
as a Red Hat support partner for the increasingly popular freeware
Linux operating system.”
“The nature of software has changed from products to services.
Any business that depends on selling software as a product will
have difficulty. Every software niche will have an open source
competitor and closed source proprietary solutions can’t
compete.”
“Microsoft will release source as a possible reaction but unless
they reinvent themselves as a provider of services and support
company they have so much to lose by going to open source.”