What I Learned from OSBC 2008 | Linux Today

What I Learned from OSBC 2008

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Matt Asay
Mar 29, 2008

“Having had a day to ruminate about the Open Source Business
Conference 2008, a few key takeaways suggest themselves. It was by
far the best OSBC yet, with a far more diverse audience and
speaking faculty that we’ve had before. This naturally leads to a
diverse set of ‘conclusions’ arising from the event:

“Enterprises love open source but the business models necessary
to fuel both their happiness and that of the vendors still need a
lot of work…”

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