there are some companies that seem to be doing nicely with a commercial business model, selling apps fairly inexpensively:
1) www.codeweavers.com (crossover office) 2) www.thekompany.com (embedded apps for PDAs) 3) www.operasoftware.com (opera browser)
and so on. the trick seems to be, don't be greedy. write a good app or 12, sell them cheap, and make a comfortable living.
I don't know how they're doing commercially with this, but allow me to say I've moved the entire office to Sun StarOffice 6.0 and I am _thrilled_.
Its price of $70/user is far more attractive than MS Office at ~$300/user (damn... over 75% discount!), I have had zero problems with it, and the functionality is quite comparable to MS Office. Some things are better in StarOffice (mail merges, paste special, word completion, language integration), and some are better in MS Office. But overall, an extremely satisfactory product.
It also has allowed me to give people the _choice_ of Linux or Windows as an OS, whichever they prefer. Big, BIG step forward! I went out and bought a license for home to show support, too.
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