On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 7:17 PM, Gervas <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Rather as we would have thought about General Motors and Lehman Brothers a > couple of years ago?? Open Source is changing the business paradigm. It is > probably those large software houses who are mainly dependent on huge > licence fees that are looking the most vulnerable strategically. IBM to > their credit have seen this coming for some time, hence they being the first > major player to shift the emphasis from hardware and software licences to > services. > While changing the model indeed is happening, it is interesting to note the difference in margins. Most of IBM's profit comes from software licenses ... Our target is to eat at IBM & Oracle's software licenses .. we offer much better value at a much lower price ;-). I fully understand and appreciate Ozawa-san's assertion of "no one ever got fired for buying IBM|Oracle|SAP". We are working to get there but it'll take time. IBM didn't get there in 5 years and neither will we .. but we're patient :-). Furthermore, by adopting technology that's truly 100% open source (not bait-n-switch open source), the customer always has some protection anyway - they always have ALL of the source with them if they want to get someone else to support it. Sanjiva. -- Sanjiva Weerawarana, Ph.D. Founder, Director & Chief Scientist; Lanka Software Foundation; http://www.opensource.lk/ Founder, Chairman & CEO; WSO2, Inc.; http://www.wso2.com/ Member; Apache Software Foundation; http://www.apache.org/ Visiting Lecturer; University of Moratuwa; http://www.cse.mrt.ac.lk/ Blog: http://sanjiva.weerawarana.org/
