If you open source an old market, are you doomed to fail?

“Some open-source vendors did quite well, at least in terms of
exits. JBoss, Zimbra, and others found their ways to fat exits
worth hundreds of millions of dollars. For those that didn’t get
bought at the peak of the open-source acquisition hype cycle,
however, there’s still a big problem to overcome:

“They just might win. After all, even if a commodity open-source
business can win over a bloated, slow-growth market, that market
may be nearing terminal decline. Who wants to own such markets? I
mean, beyond CA?”

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