“In my previous open source post, I said that one future
scenario of the rise of open source for enterprise applications was
a future devoid of either open source or commercial applications
(other than those build by programming chimps) and populated by
customer applications built by consultants for end users. The other
scenario is that there will be a few ‘narrow’ open source
application niches–and the continuation of commercial software
companies selling licenses and buying consultancies…”
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